alt Hacker NewsI hear this all the time, but I have yet to experience it. It may be because the small companies that I interview with are all startups, but I have yet to be able to get a call back from any other kind of small company. And the startups I do interview with have a full FAANG interview loops.
There seems to be a weird selection bias that if you're FAANG or FAANG adjacent these small companies aren't interested.
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>”There seems to be a weird selection bias that if you're FAANG or FAANG adjacent these small companies aren't interested.”
Many smaller companies have noticed that former and wannabe FAANGers are looking for FAANG-type jobs, and are not good fits in their niche. Small companies often have more uncertainty, fewer clear objectives, less structure, and often lower pay. They’re not a good substitute for megacorps.
Yup. You can check out of FAANG anytime you like, but you can never leave.
Was path dependency for careers always this bad?
I've had a few good experiences with interviews at small companies and startups, so they do exist.
But I have also had really terrible experiences, similar to what you've mentioned. Sounds like you've just gotten unlucky and gotten the terrible ones.
Yeah, been there, done that; wannabe FAANGs are the worst.
At a former gig we had a newly hired ex-facebook employee give notice within a month because she didn't like that dev setup had bugs that devs themselves had to fix. At fb they obviously can spend millions of dollars for a whole team that ensures that working dev env is always a button click away, a startup (even a scaleup) usually can't afford to. This is just one example out of many I can tell...