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0 pointscmrdporcupine5y ago0 comments

I upvoted both your comment and parent.

9 years at a FAANG and I'd willingly trade plenty of my money and golden handcuffs for a workplace that was more productive, creative, with better communication, and so on.

But when I look I just find shops with distorted work life balance, pointless whiteboard coding interviews, egotistical pseudo-feudal lord bosses with an illusion of hierarchical dominance, and a bunch of 25 year olds insisting on the merits of the latest JS framework flavor of the month.

Want experienced engineering talent (well, maybe they don't)? Money is not the only factor. Smaller companies are shorter on cash, but there are plenty of other things at work that smaller companies can control for...

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positr0n5y ago

"when I look I just find shops with [...], egotistical pseudo-feudal lord bosses with an illusion of hierarchical dominance, [...]"

The rest of the traits you list I can usually figure out, but how can you get at that one from just a couple interviews at a company?

cmrdporcupineOP5y ago

A combination of cynicism and reports from employees who already work there or worked there :-)

Also describes almost every job I had before coming to Google.

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