Comment by rvz
3 years ago
Only when overfunded with VC money.
At that point, they are not hiring you, me or anyone who directly applies themselves via the job form.
They are hiring their friends from elite circles.
3 years ago
Only when overfunded with VC money.
At that point, they are not hiring you, me or anyone who directly applies themselves via the job form.
They are hiring their friends from elite circles.
The unfortunate reality is that those elite circles usually do have the best among them. And having worked in FAANGs, there is some aspect of meritocracy, the code doesnt lie
FAANG employees sure are full of themselves considering they've worked at companies that have failed to innovate for two decades. What was the last successful product that Google launched with all their highly paid engineers?
I always see this and it always rubs me the wrong way. You're presuming that the only form of innovation is an entirely new consumer product.
But keep in mind that Google regularly launches new products and features that are more profitable than many startups, and then shutters them, and regularly launches individual features or pieces of infra that are industry leading (or defining, as in the case of k8s). They just aren't new consumer products.
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Engineers at Google aren't supposed to be designing new products, they ostensibly have separate people for that.
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it's not a product, but that transformers paper that came out of there is proving to be pretty, er, transformative
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Hmm I’ve worked at “elite” startups and “elite” big cos, all jobs of which I’ve gotten by directly applying. At several points have exceeded 7 figures too.