New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- A Bengaluru-based Google software engineer has triggered debate online with a candid post about the reality of working in big tech. Priyansh Agarwal, who works at Google, shared his thoughts on X, challenging the glossy "day in the life" videos often seen online.

According to Agarwal, most such videos are filmed during the "honeymoon period" - the first six to twelve months of joining companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (FAANG). He argued that they don't represent the long-term experience.

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"Most of the day in the life videos you see on the internet by FAANG engineers are from their honeymoon...