Ask HN: Would you work as product engineer or as platform engineer at BigCo?
Many large tech companies (like FAANG) have infrastructure/platform teams that are separate from whatever the business of the company happens to be (selling ads, streaming movies etc).
If you are looking to join such a company as an engineer, will you want to work for one of their product teams, or any of the supporting infrastructure/platform teams?
If you are looking to join such a company as an engineer, will you want to work for one of their product teams, or any of the supporting infrastructure/platform teams?