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Remember the FAANG layoffs were huge. You are competing against those folks (you may also be one of those).

https://fi.money/blog/posts/faang-company-layoffs-what-cause...

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Being in a major corporation sometimes can play against you:

- I see a couple of corporations on your resume, do you have experience working in a startup environment?

- ...

If you have Blind app access, try to search for "I really thought after Google, I should be employable" post

blind is the most obnoxiously insufferable community. i'm glad they're not employable!

TC 0. how's that.

I don’t wish TC 0 on anyone but Blind has to be one of the most toxic communities. I spent a few months on it when working at a FANG adjacent company and after seeing people personally calling out managers and just generally any visible person I stopped using it.

What does "TC 0" mean? I only found (three types of) complexity classification, which clearly doesn't match the context…

My guess is "total comp 0". Blind has a culture that somewhat turned into a meme that any post should be accompanied by you disclosing your total comp at the bottom of the post. To the original poster: if you're in the EU I can see if I have anything in my network to help you get some interviews. Feel free to reach out.

The idea that TC is a meaningful measure of anything is kind of silly given how incredibly volatile it can be. If you’re working at a company whose stock is on a constant rise, your TC also skyrockets for as long as your RSUs take to vest, and then you often get a cliff-fill, so your TC basically just keeps ratcheting up as a function of the stock price. I’m not complaining, but quoting my TC at you as if it gives me some kind of clout is kinda delusional if 2/3 of that TC is due to the stock doubling since my RSU grant.

In this context "TC" probably means "Total Compensation", and "TC 0" meaning "currently not earning anything at all".

It really is an astonishingly nasty community, probably at this point, self-reinforcing; no-one normal is going to stick around.

> "I really thought after Google, I should be employable"

Well, I can see the employer side as well

"After Google" you'll complain about the lack of chef on site, about how the automation tools are not quite like how it was in Google, how "oh in G we used to do that differently" etc

Yep. Had multiple ex-Faang folks who couldn't ship the most basic tickets in a startup because there weren't 10 invisible teams making their lives easier.

I recall reading something how some companies frowned upon FANG candidates because they were concerned the candidates were more trouble than what they were worth. Stuff like the toxic corporate mentality inherited from a FANG, and overestimation of their own ability even if they were actually good. We're talking about things like SDE1s acting like the principal engineer in their new role right out of the gate and nitpicking everything to try to portray themselves as problem solvers at the expense of their whole team. Something similar to a messiah complex coupled with entitlement. This rubs people the wrong way.

"Former Twitter Employee Can't Seem To Find Meditation Room At New Taco Bell Job"

https://babylonbee.com/news/former-twitter-employee-cant-see...

FAANG is nice, but it doesn't guarantee anything.

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