FAANG Or Bust (And Why It’s Dumb)

Software engineers have a deep obsession with "FAANG" often treating it as the Holy Grail of career goals. Unfortunately, this often leads to job searching failure. This lesson teaches you:

• How software engineers greatly underestimate the difficulty of getting into Big Tech and how they should believe and act instead
• Why FAANG companies are generally averse to hiring non-senior candidates
• The many reasons why going to Big Tech later in your career is good for you
• The path most engineers have to take in order to break into FAANG (and why that's perfectly fine!)

If you want to learn more about FAANG and Big Tech:

• [Taro Top 10] Breaking Into FAANG
• "What's the difference between Big Tech and startups in terms of learning and growth?"