I agree with the overall message to optimize for learning early on and check with yourself every few months and take some risks while you are young.
OTOH, it must be nice to get a job into a FAANG right out of school (if you got to Stanford or Carnegie Mellon like the author) and then get to choose a job at the new sexy unicorn, and the type of job/team once inside. As in, this work history and the people who can afford it is a tiny, tiny minority in the world, or even in the US and it's kind of depressing to read for the rest of us.
OTOH, it must be nice to get a job into a FAANG right out of school (if you got to Stanford or Carnegie Mellon like the author) and then get to choose a job at the new sexy unicorn, and the type of job/team once inside. As in, this work history and the people who can afford it is a tiny, tiny minority in the world, or even in the US and it's kind of depressing to read for the rest of us.