[robertakarobin]

My 4 big reasons for wanting to leave my current FAANG:

1. I'm not learning things that feel relevant outside the company. Our build processes, templating language, version control, and even our IDE are all proprietary and internal-only. It requires a lot of work to master these things, and that mastery is not transferable anywhere else.

2. I continually scan the internal job boards, and have yet to see another position that looks significantly more appealing.

3. The amount of red tape required to make any change, while expected and understandable for enterprise software, makes it hard to feel innovative or creative.

4. It takes 2 minutes to recompile/reload after every trivial changes. This is hugely detrimental to my "flow," and this is unlikely to ever be fixed due to the size of the codebase.

[Hydraulix989]

Most of the FAANGs have a variety of different domains you can work on within the company, consider an internal transfer.

[Hydraulix989]

I don't know why this was down voted. Take Google for example: there's ads, cloud, search, Android OS, browser, productivity web apps, communication, YouTube, AR/VR, self driving cars, ... If you claim you can't find or network your way into work that interests you, I wouldn't be blaming Google for being monolithic.