Leaving FAANG Requires Decompression

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A screenshot-style meme has black text on a white background reading "this is what happens when a software engineer leaves FAANG". Below it is a dark sci-fi image of a person emerging from a wet pod or containment tank, surrounded by cables, machinery, and red liquid, like someone being unplugged from an artificial environment. The visual implies that big-tech engineers are conditioned by FAANG's highly resourced internal platforms, processes, and organizational systems, then experience shock when they leave. The joke works as career satire about exiting the big-tech bubble and rediscovering how much of ordinary software work is not backed by massive internal infrastructure.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The first week after FAANG is mostly discovering which internal platform teams were silently pretending to be laws of physics.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The first week after FAANG is mostly discovering which internal platform teams were silently pretending to be laws of physics.
@korund93 2y

Context?
1. @SamsonovAnton 2y
  
  Wake up, Neo! You are late to job!
2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  Xbox
3. @deerspangle 2y
  
  The Web embedding photo preview crops off the top off the image, which is where the context is 🙃
  
  @SamsonovAnton 2y
  
  "You are my savior. My personal Jesus Christ". © The Matrix
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  everything is fine in tgx
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  Looks like this on Plus, which I don't think changes how embeds look compared to the default telegram client
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  "default" 😈😈😈 tg-android is known to strip the borders tgx stips them sometimes too, but more rarely (if properly set) i agree that i dont use an official client, however this behavior is identical to one of the official android clients
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  Here it is from tg android
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  WELLLLLLLLL they are bakas and cant render properly (they didnt even show its cropped)
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  Yeah, I mean, after they made clicking the Web preview open the website rather than view the image, I started to wonder if the devs actually use the app
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  lmao
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  It is the default in that the telegram.org page for android suggests that one, not tgx https://telegram.org/android
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  but still, they give you ability to choose No features (tgx) All features done wrongly (tga)
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  Hahaha, yeaaah, that sounds about right.. Almost makes you wish it was actually open source enough to accept pull requests 🙃
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  tgx is open source (became in 2021)
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  and they even accept prs!!
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  (mine was rejected because im dumb)
  
  @deerspangle 2y
  
  Woah
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  Back when it worked I used unigram on windows phone, listed under unofficial
  
  @deadgnom32 2y
  
  this makes the meme even better
@anilakar 2y

Unrelated, but why is Telegram showing Android ads on Linux in this thread?
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  wdym
  
  @deadgnom32 2y
  
  we don't see ads, we have TelegramX
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  you've been fooled
@callofvoid0 2y

huh

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