Not All Tech Companies Are Created Equal - Explaining Company Tiers

Being a SE at Apple while it sucks in software? Good luck

😂 It’s so dishonest to act like other people are interpreting your tier system as you assigning their career itself a value and you yourself didn’t intend that or think that way.

dont' feel bad. everyone judges. it's fine

Great video

Iowa? More like Io-wat :0

You shouldn't look too much into Linkedin comments. Most of it is just virtue signalling by people who have nothing to add to the conversation.

Just curious, is there a severe disadvantage to getting that agency dev job in Iowa before interviewing at big tech companies (especially in this job market)? Can these lower-tier jobs act as stepping stones for less experienced folks (bootcamp grads for example)?

Do you think that ChatGPT will replace the developers?

I also consider autonomy and impact into consideration. Some big high prestige companies can make you very stagnant in terms of growth and impact. There are 10K+ engineers in such companies, its very hard to have autonomy and impact in such a company and you are often just treated as a resource.

If FAANF is where it is now, there is a reason. Also, at Blind, there was a post regarding the difficulty of working at FAANG, and someone with 20 of experience was challenged for the first time in his life! Think about that, guys.

Rahul, one point which you didn't address in your videos and was raised in LinkedIn comments is regarding role expectations. For his level and role, maybe the expectation was driving architecture?.

It’s comparable to calling someone a B-list celebrity 😅

Maybe it's the American in me, but I think it's a bit cringe to rank companies in "tiers". I know this is done systemically worldwide, like China has "n-tier" cities. But ranking companies, like houses, is pretty personal, according to someone's preferences and lifestyle. But I know that younger or relatively inexperienced people don't know what their preferences are yet.

Faang Maang fanga manga are nothing compared to tech companies in the fintech sphere, esp trading HFT stuff, neither in terms of code complexity and latency and other metrics, and nor in terms of compensation.

FAANG is top tier? Do you know how easy FAANG is to get into compared to the likes of firms like Citadel, HRT, and Jane Street?