bumpyliquor

>> we were always busy but seldom productive

that. My experience as well. Not on FAANGs but on quite a few multinationals.

>> You will argue with your colleagues and supervisor on every decision you make

and that. Politics are through the roof and driving out the good productive engineers. The people that have little to offer on the tech side though thrive in this environment creating a vicious toxic cycle.

* Does anyone else feels like that? Yes. 2 multinationals. From bad to (much) worse. Highly pathological orgs in the Westrum scale. I was annoyed by it all in the first one but it hit the bottom with the current one. I hate every second I spend there now.

* What do you do to overcome this feeling? I'm aggressively interviewing aiming to smaller companies. Hope I'll get out and into a healthier env before I get sick.

PS: Most of these companies are a dead empty shell already. It's just that due to inertia it will take years or decades for them to actually die, if we assume they operate in a mildly healthy market -and that's a big IF. There's loads of them out there. Actually the majority is like that. Bands that made a few good albums and are capitalising on past glory.