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The CEO of Cloudflare has said that he enjoys taking burned out SDEs from Amazon and giving them a happy life at his company. It's how, in his words, Cloudflare can compete at an engineering level with AWS.

If one starts in Seattle, I'd expect them to end up at Microsoft, Expedia, other FANGs maybe, among other co's. Assuming they're not burned out.

Burned out at amazon is on point elsewhere.

they end up at other companies of similar size, its part of the circuit, colloquially called FAANGs.

a lot of them head to startups or smaller companies.