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My classification of big tech from a software engineer recruiting and WLB standpoint:

- IBM/Cisco/Oracle/etc: big Army
basic qualifications, mostly support work

- Microsoft: Marines
Household name recognition but paid the same as the rest of big military. A bit of flashiness for working on everyday products like Windows, like the background presence of MCSF at embassies.

- Amazon & AWS:
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- Amazon & AWS: 82nd Abrn
elevated reqs, large workforce, potentially toxic environment and fck fck WLB. Overweight on new grads.

- Meta: 75th RR
elevated reqs and recognition from Amazon, potentially demanding work life. Hard core prep to get in and gives some Stockholm Syndrome to keep prepping afterwards.

- Google: pilots
Hardest part is getting in, requires more breadth in the prep but chill comfy life afterwards with most flying routine if not boring transports/patrols. A bit of representational status to those outside the industry.

- Amazon/Meta/Google AI & ML: green berets.
Specialized with significant formal training, tries to be force multipliers. Referring to the actual MLE/Scientist and not support staff like ML infra.

- Higher tier SOF: pre-IPO unicorns, at times Airbnb/Uber/Doordash/OpenAI just like how the unit names may change. Small numbers so reqs can be arbitrarily high and subjective based on specific needs, often recruiting heavily from the MAG’s. Less bureaucracy. Can make one stealthy rich but depends on some luck.

Apple: PMC’s
- kind of removed from the rest of software industry, will hire experienced guys from the others to do specific stuff like forking FreeBSD for MacOS, ARM support and design.

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Hmmmmm…. As a Veteran in big tech and been selling to DoD for a decade….

Apple: Big in DISA/4th Estate. Generals, the president and presidential staff all like iPhones… so need apps that work on iPhones. Plus all DoD branches have some sort of creative sections that do graphics or videos requiring Apple HW/SW.

Microsoft: Azure is taking over left and right across the DoD. AWS has abused too many DoD customers.OpenAI plug-ins will only increase MS adoption.

AWS: widely used across the DoD/IC. Large teams across the board.

Meta: useless outside of IC. Lots of disinformation / information operations work to be done.

It Mentioned in big tech but is the 5th most valuable company in America - widely used across IC/DoD. Going to see exponential growth in DoD/IC over next 5 years.

Cisco: Networking business is failing due to many competitors and subpar tech (Mellanox, Arista, many others) but for all intents and purposes they are a cyber security company at this point.



IBM: garbage and technology is not respected in any meaningful manner outside of DoD/IC financial organizations.

Oracle: making a huge comeback. Pissed off a ton of customers about ten years ago…. Still left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths. Huge push into no-SQL and GPU accelerated database analytics. Big growth in DoD starting in 2-3 years. Their ERP is widely used across DoD.

VMware: No mention, but widely used across DoD/IC and possibly the most under talked about disruptive technology.

Palo Alto: no mention but basically the exclusive firewall of the DoD/IC. Cisco firewalls are garbage.

Splunk: no mention but widely used across DoD for enterprise. Very niche work needing custom software services.

Elastic: no mention but widely used across cyber programs in the DoD. VERY niche.

Google: always been niche in IC. Army using now. Navy. Big salaries.

Adobe: no mention but widely used and needs niche services for classification reasons (insider threat, leakage).

AI/ML - go Shield, Databricks, Scale, C3….. DM me for more.

Storage - NetApp owns DoD/IC - set to scale with zero trust mandates

Compute - Dell and HPE have huge cleared Dev teams.

Anyway…. Getting in my hot tub. DM for more or comment below.

Ha reminds me of this cartoon re: Oracle

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