> Not everyone who works at Meta has a better, more ethical option.

Come on now. Software engineers at Meta are not trapped with Meta on their resume (whatever you may think of the company itself). Most of the FAANG, for engineering, just having that name on your resume, opens up doors.

You might get less than $700K TC as an E6 but that's also not "trapped" unless you've chosen to outspend your income.

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siren2026 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly. Working at Meta means you studied for 4 weeks for the leetcode interviews. That type of dedication means you could very easily get any job anywhere else.

And please don't compare someone making 800k$ with someone scanning a ticket for Ticketmaster.

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FireBeyond 7 hours ago | parent [-]

How am I doing that? I'm talking about people who have very valid options elsewhere.

"I'm stuck at Meta, making $800K, I have no other options". We're talking about software engineers who created much of the things they're complaining about.

I'm not talking about say, cafeteria or custodial staff.

And I despise Meta, and you can say whatever you want about Leetcode (and I tend to agree) but don't pretend that there are many many rungs of "software engineering calibers" in jobs that wouldn't see Meta, or Netflix and say "we have to interview this person".

	▲	siren2026 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You misread my comment. I'm in agreement with you all the way.