Comment by ownagefool

I'll double the sample size. I've both posted a few times and replied to ads.

The people were mostly nice, but they tended to want very specific niche skillets, had a fair amount of hoops to jump through for sucky comp and no equity.

There was one exception but they hit me with several "2 hour" take home tests and I tapped out because there's easier money even in this market.

I suspect the story is a bit better for the US cohort, but comp wise if you can get into FAANG you probably should.

( I turned down FAANG for CTO of a UK startup in 2020, and despite stellar performance, I became much poorer whilst the owner became a paper billionaire, so part of the problem might be I'm just not interested in wooly promises that can be revised )