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Pros And Cons Of Working In A“Big Tech” Company

The Test Lead
6 min readOct 29, 2022

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Whether you are just starting out your career or 20 years in the field, there is a good chance you have wondered at least once what is it like working in a “big tech”. For this definition of big tech companies, I will use companies in FAANG/MATANA acronyms which include Meta(Facebook), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Tesla, and Nvidia. FAANG used to be considered the top tech companies, but recently some people are going with MATANA, but for our purposes, we will include both sets and maybe a few years from now there will be another acronym.

This article will cover the pros and cons of different highlighted parts of working in a big tech company as well as overall thoughts and tips.

Pros & Cons Of Working In Big Tech

If almost everyone has thought about working for a big tech company at least once, there must be many pros to actually working in one or it wouldn’t be as sought after. Also, many who work in big tech don’t always stay long. Let’s dive deeper into these ideas.

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