Ask HN: How comfortable is your FAANG job?

So I'm a software consultant, and having worked with a few large clients now, something has become very obvious: the less profitable the company, the more miserable it is to work there (for myself and the company's employees).

Working with hugely profitable companies, we can charge $200k for a project, and it's relatively lax, expectations are reasonable, and deadlines are flexible. Even if it's a total flop, it's only $200k and they can write it off as an experiment. Working with far less profitable companies (within the same sector), even our $50k projects are miserable, scope-creeping, infighting experiences where the employees will try to extract maximum value from us while also trying to claim credit for the work (to obtain promotions and raises, which are limited due to the aforementioned limited profitability).

So I'm curious to learn about your personal experiences working at these companies that we generally consider to be hugely successful. I'm sure there is massive variation amongst different teams and projects, but I'm interested nonetheless. Are you still working against tight deadlines and fighting for promotions? Or are you enough of a cog that you can get by while doing the absolute bare minimum to get your annual raise? How does your job now compare to your previous experiences?