Remember: Good pay and stability comes not from how good you are, but by how profitable your employer is and how much they can leverage your output into profitability
That’s why rank and file at faang can pull down 300k+ TC
Yes but you speak of it as if I can 'choose' to work at such company. Their interview processes are a mess and basically a random lottery. They don't test your engineering ability. They don't correspond to the job.
Personally I also have concerns about ethics which has hindered my ability to convey genuine enthusiasm when speaking with interviewers at such companies.
That’s why rank and file at faang can pull down 300k+ TC