Working a at FAANG is not as attractive to most when you don’t know about the issues in the video games industry. There is a reason why FAANG companies pay well and video games companies don’t have to.

I met zero people who told me they dreamed about working in a FAANG since childhood.

>I met zero people who told me they dreamed about working in a FAANG since childhood.

Hi, nice to meet you: I dreamed about working in Microsoft since I was 12. Ended up in a different FAANG, but anyway.

haha, yeah, the only reason working in FAANG wasn't my dream is that I never could have dreamed of reaching such lofty heights

Now that I'm here, it's sort of lame, but it's still a lot better than any other jobs I've done..

FAANG = Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google.

Microsoft is not included. So technically you did not dream of working at a FAANG since childhood.

FAANG needs to die as an acronym.

Definitely far from 0 people, I'm half embarrassed to admit I wanted to join cisco when I was not even in collage.

Try IBM.

Hello. I used to want to work at a company like Google when I was younger.

Microsoft owns Xbox and a multitude of game studios…

Most insightful comment of the day. :)

(Between those two comments, Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard)

I know a bunch, but I also grew up in the Bay Area…

Possibly the first generation of kids whose Dads worked at FAANG

There is no mention in the article about these people being engineers. These people were fired "to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct". These are the bad guys. And finally, there isn't that much overlap between "perf tuning in AAA game engines and improving cloud workloads".

Both your sentences are true. So, what do we conclude from them though? It doesn’t change the core fact that the cost of skilled labor is lower for games companies than it is for FAANG, right?