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I’ve worked at Twitter, Uber, Amazon, and Facebook. They all had mountains of tech debt and oncall burden.

Which one do you work at so I can go there?

I think you're going to find this at nearly all software companies, FAANG or smaller. The sad state of our industry is that everything is so poorly written that it's falling apart daily, and each company has an army of people trying to toss water on the last fire that popped up. This is the natural steady state of an industry that prioritizes schedule and feature cram over quality and craftsmanship, and prioritizes human heroics/toil over process and automation. Move fast and break things.

The key I have found is to have hobbies that take you out of cell reception.

Or at least appear to have those hobbies if you do not.....

The thing about FAANG is that very few experiences can be generalized, even within a single FAANG company. These companies are so massive that culture, tech, etc. can have huge amounts of variance between orgs let alone companies.

Using (FAANG) for anonymity, but you're absolutely correct