[BJBBB]

Let me turn this around a bit. I have worked with and interviewed former FAANG employees. A few were good to go, as is, for some programming and software engineering positions, but have not found any that could make reliable systems-level stuff or do anything that was not narrowly defined.

Recent contract was to screen about 100 applicants for a quality position in a large well-known (mostly) hardware company, so the salary was commensurate with a FAANG, and better than average for this area. In addition to the algorithmic stuff, the position required knowledge of MISRA, functional safety/SIL (IEC61508), control systems (mostly PID stuff), machinery safe code (IEC62061), instrument control code, test-driver code, and some other stuff. We did not care if there was no direct functional safety experience, but the applicant did need some level of hardware knowledge and some basic Physics. The FAANG people all bombed.

Methinks you people are over-thinking this stuff and over-rating the FAANG gang. That is, go find a non-FAANG job that requires you to grow and allows diverse professional opportunities.

[logicslave]

Yeah but FAANG pays twice what everyone else does

[decafninja]

Also doesn't take into account the sort of "compounding interest" effect having a FAANG (or similar elite tech company) name on your resume, possibly for the rest of your career.

[non-entity]

Where the hell is this kind of job listed, because 90% of jobs I see in these sort of industries are for guys that have decades of experience particularity in those domains.