11 August 2022

Faanmg Companies

Faanmg have weird processes, lots of politics and unnecessary levels of arrogance. Fang, Faang, Faamg, Faanmg - what is it short for? It consists of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, and Alphabet-Google as per their stock tickers. But, the referred acronyms can vary as per stock performances and their potential growth.

  • Why do they have so many interview processes?
  • Why do they ask so many dumb, irrelevant questions in interviews?
  • Why do they care so much about what academic background a person has when even their founder, in most cases, is a dropout?
  • Why do they have so many screening stages?
  • Why are they stuck on processes when they talk about breaking barriers?
  • Why do they have such a bad track record on diversity, inclusion, and equity?
  • Why is working for them so mundane and boring?
  • Why people that work there are bred to be arrogant pricks?
  • Why do they outsource work and then bother recruiting through so many stages?
  • What is the point in working for such pointless companies when there are a lot better opportunities out there at startups?
  • Why do they recruit people to work on mundane and boring stuff when they can outsource it?
  • Why life at such companies is not cracked up to what they say in their marketing campaigns?
  • Why do majority of these companies hire for academics, especially ones that can't put theory into practice?
  • Why there is so much politics and red tape in such companies?
  • Why such companies like to hire dumb people and give them tasks to work on complex things?
  • Why the typical employee at such companies is a high academic achiever but an inept practical problem solver?
  • Why they like using theoretical puzzles in interview stages but have no skills of solving real-world practical issues?
  • Why most work in such companies is compartmentalized boredom?
  • Why such companies have the worst managers with terrible people skills?
  • Why such companies have the worst record of sexism and discrimination against women?
  • Why every such company should have a separate ethics department so they can control all the discrimination, biases, and unethical behavior rampant in the organization?
  • Why do such companies have such a discriminatory policy on hiring blacks and asians?