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Though sometimes it feels that if you are not working at one of the FAANGs making $400k/year that you are a total loser.

That's the socially acceptable thing to brag about, but it's absolutely not "everyone" here. A lot of people downplay it if they don't fit that narrative.

But it's kind of a skin deep thing. HN is vastly more diverse than that.

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Of course it is not everyone, but it is a reoccurring theme. Especially in threads that discuss working at a start up which is a fair number of the threads around here. Likely it is just a very vocal minority, but still it is annoying.

People working at a startup are defacto not working at a FAANG company.

It's a "vocal minority" because this is the virtual water cooler for Y Combinator. They aren't even trying to brag in such cases. They are just trying to make their life work.

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