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by chrisseaton 2078 days ago
> one of the 100k+ FAANG engineers

Right, but 100k FAANG engineers is like the top 1% of engineers worldwide.

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Perhaps by pay scale. Definitely not by talent/productivity.
I'm pretty sure anyone able to pass a FAANG interview is well within the 1% of talent for our industry. Those things are brutal.
The interviews are brutal. But they don't consistently identify talent. I know a lot of people at all of them and turn down interviews nearly constantly (Apple is the only one I've considered - the rest violate my ethical standards. And I'm not going to commute to Cupertino).

There's a lot of deadweight at these companies.

And all of the are at FAANG? How convenient