[yowlingcat]

This comment strikes me as a little idealistic and cut off from reality. At large companies (where 90% of the jobs are), 90% or more of the work is KTLO (keep the lights on) work. It's menial and intellectually un-stimulating by design, because a bunch of really smart people early on in the company's history put work into building a machine that prints money with little non-maintenance work. That's because they knew that such a company would be able to fetch high multiples for investors.

If you want a job like that, not only are they easy to find, but they're absolutely everywhere. It's in contrast the intellectually stimulating and challenging jobs which are hard to find, because they attract growth-oriented individuals who by nature are very competitive. Getting a menial, coast-worthy FAANG job isn't that hard because you're only competing with a pool of others who want the same thing -- by definition, you just need to be a little bit more differentiated than them and you're golden; there's a gigantic supply and it's ever increasing.