The lesson here is that you shouldn't just join a FAANG company, you should aim for particular teams inside it. Any big company has a lot of operational needs, and not all of them are hard and exciting, on the contrary: most of those just aren't.
Large companies / countries do not exist, they're made up out of small groups and picking the right group makes the difference between awesome and hell.
You will not find a large company with stellar players only.