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>>zuhaye+(OP)
Other companies nickel and diming engineers think they are somehow getting something for free. All the highest performing companies in the world pay insane amounts to their programmers

>>ldjkfk+E4
Only when overfunded with VC money.

At that point, they are not hiring you, me or anyone who directly applies themselves via the job form.

They are hiring their friends from elite circles.

>>rvz+D6
The unfortunate reality is that those elite circles usually do have the best among them. And having worked in FAANGs, there is some aspect of meritocracy, the code doesnt lie

>>ldjkfk+O7
FAANG employees sure are full of themselves considering they've worked at companies that have failed to innovate for two decades. What was the last successful product that Google launched with all their highly paid engineers?

>>TechBr+t8
I always see this and it always rubs me the wrong way. You're presuming that the only form of innovation is an entirely new consumer product.

But keep in mind that Google regularly launches new products and features that are more profitable than many startups, and then shutters them, and regularly launches individual features or pieces of infra that are industry leading (or defining, as in the case of k8s). They just aren't new consumer products.