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Facebook, Google, Apple, and Netflix still have some of the best talent in the bay. They also push out a lot of amazing projects (PyTorch, React, Go, Chromium, Tensorflow), although Netflix much less so.

At the end of the day they have the money, and they do provide ridiculous perks.

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> They also push out a lot of amazing projects ... although Netflix much less so.

Actually Netflix much more so, only their projects are not in software. Just sayin.

Where can I find such non-software projects?

think they mean the movies and things

Ever use Xcode on a day to day basis? Clearly not the best talent there.

Netflix have Chaos Monkey, Spinnaker and Jaeger. Maybe not industry leading but still better than Apple.

Jaeger is Uber.

You're correct there. My bad.

Google has quite a large team working on Spinnaker as well (sibling to my own team).

Also, Hystrix, Eureka, and other JVM microservicey packages.

But you will only ever be a tiny part of those big projects. If you want big challenges or big recognition perhaps a smaller startup will make you happier...

In all likelihood you won't even work on any of those projects.

Not necessarily. You can go to a team that works on a tiny part or you can go to a team that affects the entire company. You'd be surprised how few people want to work on the latter. Especially because the tiny parts are usually new press release type "fancy" stuff and not boring things like build systems, security, etc.

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