[borroka]

For every job that it's open in one of the FAANG, recruiters get thousands of applications. It sounds like many are trying, but the vast majority never gets a call back. Others cannot pass the interview. Others again are not interested in working in a very demanding environment.

I worked at a FAANGs, now I work in lower-tier tech company. I make 3/4 (low-ish upper tier) of what I used to make, I work 1/8 of the hours I used to work, work stress is non-existent. Many people, many reasons.

[Mandatum]

Weird, it was the opposite for me. Went from 60 hours in consultancies and low tier to 30ish at FAANGish. Remote probably helped with COVID, but the output is consistent.

[borroka]

I can see that. My point is that there are many reasons for not wanting to work at a FAANG, even for someone like me who has worked in one and could work, I guess, in others. My reason is that I make enough money currently not to want to work there. I was working a standard 35-40 hours per week at a FAANG. There are also many others in non-FAANG tech who make half my salary and work much more. And maybe I will be one of them at some point, there are no guarantees in life!

[bradlys]

$300k at 5-10hrs/week is likely to be obscenely obscure and not a good reference point for anyone.

Yours would be way more desirable than the FAANG stuff. People could moonlight for your job easily…

[borroka]

Agreed about the extremeness of my case, although I would not call it as "obscenely obscure". There are plenty of people who went from FAANG to tech jobs of lesser responsibility, maybe they don't work 10 hours a week but 20, maybe they are half of what they used to make (not my money - say from 500k to 250k), they have greatly reduced worked-related stress, they can play with their kids or partners, and they would not go back to back-stabber friendly meat-grinders.

[lapaz17]

Omg. Could you share your company in private?