Not everyone who leaves Big Tech will struggle with these issues. BUT I do know many colleagues who become frustrated after leaving. Engineers who thrive within a big company may not always be succeed outside that bubble. It's important to acknowledge (and learn from) the system around you.

Facing 10x more rejections now than while working as a staff eng at Meta seems so obvious, after you said it. As someone who struggles with fear of rejections, other people talking about and acknowledging their rejections is in an odd way encouraging to me. Thank you for sharing your perspective, Rahul!

Hi rahul , your work is helping everyone in software industry .in meta you get more money that’s it, but here you got more confidence by not depending on any outside help, you’re doing everything by yourself, your voice also matured, now I can able to understand what you’re saying, before it is too fast,not clear that much. Now you have 75k family and you’re helping them with your strong& caring heart for us. Thanks for the great decision.

Can relate, I was part of the first batch of layoffs. Now working on a remote startup, missing the socialisation aspect a lot, and then the food.

Ur keeping it real on KZfaq which is rare, hope you keep going. Also if you believe life is either a great adventure or nothing at all, for most ppl who stay in big tech it ends up being the latter

I left Amazon in 2011, and god I can relate to this video. I was a mid level manager at Amazon who felt frustrated that I wasn't moving up fast enough. I had graduated from an Ivy League school a few years prior, and it was frustrating seeing my old classmates getting promoted so much faster than me. I felt like I was working so hard without seeing growth in my career. I joined a e-commerce company with $50m in yearly revenue as the VP of Technology. I was on the executive team and oversaw all aspects of the site, business analytics. I also mentored the operations team although they never directly reported to me. I felt like a fish out of water, and I regretted leaving Amazon almost immediately. I went from being an average performer working along all-star people who I could learn from. The small startup just didn't have that. It was constantly taking shortcuts, thinking in the short-term and paying off technical debt rather than making the right decision. If anyone reads this who is in big tech, I hope it just serves as a reminder of the great things about their current space. If I had read a message like this before leaving Amazon, I may have tried to wait for another review cycle or two.

This video resonated with me at many levels. Left faang 1.5 years ago for an early stage startup. The startup journey has been life changing, but there are things about faang that I dearly miss. Great topic. Maybe more conversations on this?

Great video! Now you should do a video talking about the things you now enjoy after leaving FB

Thanks for sharing your honest thoughts and being vulnerable with us. We believe in Taro!!

Thank you Rahul for sharing these things.

Thank you for sharing. This was very informative

Thanks for sharing your experience

After working at 2 startups and even spending 2 years trying to make my own, I’m realizing how nice it would be to work in Big Tech. Time to LeetCode again 😂

Literally watching this in line for free coffee at Google, lol. Thanks for keeping it real Rahul!

hey Pandey. myself Rahul and i'm in clg third year right now and I don't have any knowledge on anything so far i haven't done any projects. so I got like 5months of time and i want to learn something and get placed in a decent company with decent package. when i checked your youtube video im getting little bit interested in android development side cause its little bit unique compare to web development cause the full stack developers is booming right now everybody wanting to be a full stack developer in web side. but i want to be little bit unique i feel like there is nobody talking about android development. so i need ur guidance of getting started with andorid development and what are the free resources to learn from and it be better for providing roadmap to things learn in 5months as much as possible and the project what should i do to get placed.

This was a really insightful video Rahul! Really interesting to hear your input!

At what age you started your ms in stanford ?

Hi, Rahul. I am learning android development and I am creating a netflix clone (with very few functionality). The Home page shows a list of movies based on categories (nested recyler view). Everytime I navigate back to home page the api is called and loading screen is shown. How do I minimize this api call?. I am new to development and Android Programming. Any suggestion from Rahul or any experienced developer in comment section is appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

bruh, you're killing me with your thumbnails :)

Having the minutia of watching this video instead of working on my startup.

i’ve been watching your videos for over 2 years now. will u ever do any tutorials again?

Are you open to take on a side project? I'm trying to get someone to create an app for me. Lmk!

It’s been 1.5 years??? Omgggg I hate time

lol I message my PM at Meta and get ghosted all the time

hi Rahul, I would like to invite you as a guest in my podcast and I dont know how to go about it.

promo sm ☝️

Dude you need a girlfriend. You can always join big tech later.

I am a full stack developer from India and I want to work in your startup. I want to contribute . I will charge 30 dollars per hour and even it is negotiable, please consider me if you are looking for someone

Complete dependency on others is NOT a good thing.