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I believe most of FAANGs are indeed like that ? (I was in the stack-ranking kind)

So more likely it is a requirement after all ? I say it to be a requirement because definitely not my personality trait or a skill... so something I need to figure out how to do (depending on if there are more of such team members wherever I land next, if it all in a tech job. Even if there is one such bright spark then they start creating the expectation for others. My manager quite clearly let that out not quite literally but not hard to read between the lines)

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If you're doing your own thing then you are probably going to have to self-promote even more than you would in a FAANG kind of company,

That is undeniably true.

The difference is that in this case I will walk in knowing very well that I need to budget time/money/energy into marketing.

Was going through some YT videos from someone claiming to have spent several years in a FAANG and they also mentioned that even the job "turns out to be a marketing" effort in no small part.

I did have a mentor in the job who was encouraging me to "demo as frequently as possible" and that made sense.

What tripped (or triggered even) me was the constant "I am so good, this thing I did made me so happy and all of you must agree" behaviour by the minute... and that was somehow being encouraged. I don't get that...

Tolerating or encouraging that just means that there are bad managers there. There's no shortage of bad management anywhere, FAANG or not.

I wonder how these managers sleep at night.

Anyways, people choose to do what they choose to do (me included). I simply wanted to understand how I should react and adapt (if I do end up taking my next job in tech)

Any kind of brag is certainly not my personality. If I do something I simply do it and end up picking up the next thing. Turns out I need to "announce it and be happy about it" as well.

And I say "I don't get that..." . I think I am saying I should find a way to learn to do that while masking my discomfort in doing that.

It will be stressful though.

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