u/Head_Chocolate_4458 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Faang is the second job for 9/10 on the team. Companies like Lockheed, Honeywell, ti instruments, raytheon, Intel are what the first jobs were. Most spent 3-6 years are first company. Of course getting the position fresh out of college does accelerate the career, but the 1 pe
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah also agree with that. Many super high performing people have non traditional backgrounds and rocket ship trajectories.
The problem is that the statistics at a zoomed out level just show that if you have a strategy to hire 100 people efficiently, you go to Stanford and MIT.
I've been on both sides of this and I understand both sides, there isn't just one way of looking at it and each person is a unique individual with agency over their own career.