What's with FAANG guys being aggressive LinkedInfluencers?
Just curious. LinkedIn feed is constantly spammed by the FAANG folks with their gyaans on clearing SDE rounds. Some are genuine to encourage/motivate others, that’s great.
But I also feel some does it to flex their ‘cool’ work culture (with their pictures with office background) and to make people feel like getting a job at FAANG is the ultimate thing that can happen to a software engineer. What’s with too much romanticising the FAANG role?
Do organizations use the employees to directly or indirectly create a premiumness? Or do the employees get the sense of superiority and the euphoria kicked in after landing a role.
Moreover, I don't understand how people with less than 5 years experience immediately consider themselves as industry experts just because they could crack the system design round.
I still think the real FAANG folks are busy enough in solving actual problems and inventing stuffs. The other set of people are just trying to monetize as much as possible with Topmate interview mentoring appointments and getting subscribers for their YouTube channels by riding this FAANG crazy wave.
I'm curious to see what would happen if these big techs stop being paymasters. All these LinkedInfluencers would vanish the next day like Thanos' snap.
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I think FAANG companies and its employees both mutually benefit from the increased hype around these roles.
The employees often start their YT, Courses, Topmate, Brand Collabs etc. and are able to generate a good side income.
The "influence" of these employees ends up creating an increased demand for these roles, but since the number of jobs at these organizations will be fixed. It creates the premiumness. FAANG can end up offering a lower pay to potential employees than they used to pay because they know there is a demand. But they can still be assured that the best of talent is applying to their orgs.
But these influencers are definitely a small subset of the total FAANG employees, so I feel it won't be fair to generalise it.
And to be honest if a person gets the FAANG tag then why won't he/she milk every last penny out of it. It's nothing morally or ethically wrong. And it helps these folks enhance their "Personal Brand" which might help them in making their next switch.
So while FAANG is definitely overhyped, it is still fair game.
Agreed. Yeah I was not generalising, I have high regards for the people who aren't milking for followers and profile views by their FAANG tag.
Funny to see those subset of people usually never come up with new constructive posts, just resharing the same old lists of 'resources' and commenting on other fellow influencers posts like 'Great share', 'Very informative'. 😄
Even if they come up, it will most likely be a personal experience with added stories that will somehow link with the course they created or endorsed.
I don’t know why they create that silly topmate account, they already earn enough so why go for those little earnings? Going by their mad frenzy behind getting followers and likes, and the way they frame their posts, I don’t think there is any genuine intent to help
Not little, I have seen few get like Rs.1500 for resume review and upto Rs.10k for 45 minutes of DSA/System design interview guide or 1:1 mentoring.
Topmate and they also start shilling courses from obscure bullshit companies claiming that it helped them secure the job or telling that it will help others when in reality all of them just rob desperate people of their hard earned money or push them into deep debt
The only FAANG guys worth spending time on are Arpit Bhayani and Striver….rest of the FAANGians(who are always giving gyaan and at the end say “…connect with them for 1:1 session at <XYZ.com>) I believe rigorously followed a “syllabus” (like people do to crack JEE) and thus were able to crack FAANG. I hardly see any content worth absorbing from the above class of FAANGians. PS: This is totally my observation from following such FAANGians for the last few months and people can obviously engage in constructive criticism if I am wrong in my perception.
I think once someone becomes an accomplished engineer, they should start thinking of solving real world societal problems. We don’t have a shortage for that in India. But as soon as someone lands a faang job, i see them flaunting their packages, hosting AMAs. I am not saying its bad, it sounds silly. Grow up..
Problem is India has scarcity mindset so anybody who achives slightly feel out of the world. Too many of them who have kinetic energy stored like a spring, release it on people. Unfortunate that India has too much peer pressure. No where in the world there are such Bhaiya Didis etc. Everybody should carve their own path then only a society becomes great.