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There are other aspects that you need to take into consideration: bureaucracy, the enforced-by-law company values(last year I got an offer which seemed really appealing until I saw the contract and some of those clauses), the endless "open a jira ticket" for every little thing such as rebooting a development server or whatever(which ends up being a 2 day task with hours of explanations as opposed to ssh; sudo rebbot), the endless and pointless meetings which are filled with "we should" coming from people who love taking credit when something is going right but will toss the blame to anyone they can when they aren't. Not to mention absurd expenses for "business trips" which are pointless in the vast majority of cases. I've been to several of these and they were all a waste of money and time: seriously, fly 20 people across the world just so they can listen to 3 days of "we should" lectures, there goes a ton of money which could have been spent on something useful like training or even a few small bonuses for the people that have worked their asses off. I've worked in such environments for many many years and the idea of ending up in such a place again terrifies me(I certainly started appreciating the absence of all that crap, though I never really knew how much all that truly bothered me until I ran away from it).

My point is, if you decide to go with a FAANG, you will get the quirky benefits and traits but at the expense of having to throttle yourself much below your capacity and dealing with a ton of frustration coming from the corporate side of things.



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