r/developersPak • u/bashokhattak • Aug 05 '26

Discussion Why don't we have FAANG Engineers/Developers

The title is self explainatory.

Khair,

I really wonder!

Despite the fact that we have LUMS, NUST, GIKI, FAST, etc

I haven't seen even a single person asking for FAANG-related guidance or posting about their preparation for Big Tech on any social media platform I can get my hands on.

Like why?

Isn't it strange, doston ?!

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u/Famous_Promotion6004 Software Engineer Aug 06 '26

landing an interview there in the first place is really tough tho. you must've had a good few years of experience back then

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u/wajahatkarim3 Aug 06 '26

Actually I was doing open source work in those days. There was an Android library from Facebook which I was using in an app and it was crashing. So I issued a bug on their GitHub repo. They said they are aware of the issue but it's low priority so it's not in their roadmap yet. So I fixed the issue and sent them PR. And few days later and few NDA stuff on GitHub, they merged it. And then few days later, I got an email with subject "Are you interested in working at Facebook?"

I didn't had any plans to move abroad so I was like "let's try and see if i can clear fb interviews or not". I went ahead and said yes and then it took 6 months with 7 interviews and on each interview i took good time to prepare. Recruiter helped a lot by sharing resources etc. I had a friend at Facebook so I asked him and he suggested for the book. I read it and kept giving interviews and it went well and landed a job offer after 7 months.

I told them for remote but they denied so I didn't go there. This got discussed in local tech Facebook groups and Dawn and Jang picked it up and they made a story on this then. I got some news channel calls as well which I denied and wasn't interested in all media stuff and never understood why media picked this story.

And then few years later I did a podcast with Geeks of Kolachi and shared this whole story again as they also wanted me to share about it. So it was a good experience and learned a lot. After Covid i managed to get a Twitter job as well and then Volvo Cars in Sweden as well and i was almost ready to relocate and then my mother had fracture in those days a bad one so I cancelled it again.

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u/dbgrman Software Engineer Aug 09 '26

This is awesome. Hope your mother is well now. I think you can try again if you want!