Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
This doesn&#x27;t directly answer your question and you didn&#x27;t ask it, but I feel it relates directly to the source of your frustration potentially: you may never find a job that is fully satisfactory in terms of what you hope to find. I used to be in a similar boat striving to work towards and find some magical job that would make me feel fulfilled and purposeful. They all ended up having things I didn&#x27;t like and would quickly lose interest.<p>So at least what I did is stop trying to put so much of an expectation on my job to fulfill me. I took responsibility to find and do things at and especially outside of my day job that did fulfill me. Now I feel no large angst or annoyance at glacial paces at work that occur, political games, etc.. because I have other things that are more important to me that are interesting, provide meaning to me, challenging, etc.<p>Having a nice paying job with relatively little work to do is something of a luxury, especially in this pandemic time where the economic toll is hitting many. So my unwarranted suggestion is to find something meaningful for yourself to do&#x2F;experience even if your work isn&#x27;t where it&#x27;s at.. you probably will even have extra time to discover and pursue that since sounds like you&#x27;re not so busy at work.