[znpy]

I applied and got a job at a faang due to frustration with my old job.

At my old job, the manager of my manager still wanted to keep his hands on the infrastructure, but his background was in software engineering and the effect was that a) the limitations of the infrastructure closely matched the limitations in understanding of that person and b) me and other coworkers were frustrated because most ideas for improvement would get rejected for no real reason (just bullshit managerial reasons).

I’m half regretting my decision though, because now in faangland you supposedly can fix stuff around but the workload is so intense and the pace so fast that effectively I can’t take the time to analyse interesting problems and design a solution.