Comment by koakuma-chan

You could be an outlier. I, too, wanted to work at a particular Big Tech.

But then I looked again at the prep materials they recommended for their frat hazing interview theatre, and it was so depressingly trashy, that it made me not want to work there anymore.

And things I read publicly (e.g., culture of disingenuous mercenary careerism, and hiring scraping the bottom of the barrel that knows only the interview gaming) and hear privately (worse) mean that probably it was for the best that I didn't move there, though the bigger bank account would've been nice.