I joined MAANG as a product manager working on an internal tooling team from a small startup and am really underwhelmed. Folks are making 200k+ but folks are lazy, a feature that would have took 10 days at a startup is taking my first 5 months, managers aren’t leaders that develop their people and set a bold vision, and there’s little to no motivation from the team to be great and do great work.

Curious if anyone else has had underwhelming experiences going into MAANG.

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It’s not your imagination. We have L7 product managers who would have made $90K at my old company making $400K or more. Some of them wouldn’t have even stayed employed at a smaller company because all they know how to do is come up with high-level vision docs with no info on what the product does now or what’s possible. This is not useful since in most cases small features and fixes would be more valuable than a total overhaul, and we are not resourced to start over. Also these people have no idea how to make that happen. They want to hand over an unremarkable vision and assume someone else will spec it and launch it.

I have a theory that working at a smaller company forces you to wear hats of other roles, so you get that experience, whereas MAANG companies seem to keep people in swim lanes.

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Hi thanks for your sharing. I am at a start up now aiming to join a big tech company. Do you have any suggestions?

Make your own team ..may be remote and work on your own odea instead and grow

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I went from startups to a bigger company. It’s wild that what used to take a few days takes weeks in some cases. I think that the complexity of the systems is what causes it though. A lot more to break. Also people work 9-5.

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