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> Got a FAANG internship? Well it wasn’t one of the good FAANGs, so if you really think about it, you really didn’t accomplish anything.

This is funny because I’ve been straight up told this by multiple people. It’s not neuroticism, it’s the simple fact that hierarchies exist.

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Which ones are the "bad" FAANGs?

I believe Amazon has much more variable hiring standards than Google so probably Amazon. Don’t know enough to think of any other candidates though I doubt Google or Netflix are among them given the former’s ludicrous hiring process or the latter’s policy of firing fast with very generous severance for people they don’t think reach their standards once hired.

hierarchies are toxic by definition

Neither the definition of toxic, nor the definition of hierarchy imply any such relation, much less require it.

Hierarchies are what they are: an acknowledgement that the universe (and most subsets of it, e.g. companies, countries, etc.) is not a mere undifferentiated blob, but has qualitative and quantitative differences that we need to take into account.

You wouldn't get any arbitrary surgeon if you could have the best one, just because "hierarchies are toxic", right?

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