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I choose "Believe in product" & "Other". I really love the product I work on. I've had a lot of friction on my team, a few issues related to comp, but in the end of the day I'm really passionate about what I get to build and this product is only really viable in a company as large as the one I work for. And, this brings me to the "Other": brand recognition. When I used to meet people and say "I work at X as a programmer" people had no idea what I worked on. Inside of companies when someone had no ground to stand on for a technical argument they'd say "My friend from $FAANG said my way is better" and it was basically pointless to try and argue from there because I didn't have FAANG on my resume. Now I get to skip all of that and people actually attempt to evaluate me, and my technical propositions, based on their own merit instead of tribalism. Or... at least the tribalism works in my favor.


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