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Both have extremely long and moderately random interview processes. You need to be extremely bright and extremely lucky to get to stage 8 or 9 of the interview process with either of them.
Sure. You don't think these bright and lucky people ever interview at two places at once?
Having leverage to demand a top salary from one of these orgs by having them counter a job offer from the other seems to be the exact thing a bright and lucky person would do.
I guess you don't think anyone on lemmy, a platform that leans heavily towards tech like early reddit did, could be bright and lucky?
It's the element of randomness as opposed to the applicant's accumen that makes me question it.
I've done FAANG interview processes and I have friends/colleagues who have done them before too. Often the people who get jobs with them apply every year (or as often as allowed) with roughly the same CV, and do roughly as well in the practical tests, but they can end up being weeded out at different stages of the process seemingly at random.
It depends on factors like the mood of the interviewer, or the standard of the other applicants, etc. The whole thing is just so hard to reach the final stage of that I am having difficulty imagining that there are many people who have been in the position of being in the final stages for more than one role.
Edit: I have an extremely talented colleague at the moment who used to work for Meta and he had to apply an insane amount of times despite the fact he is technically extremely proficient.
Okay, so the issue is that you can't imagine someone doing anything that you or someone you personally know hasnt been able to do?
You realize also that the commenter could be talking about applying to both back in the 2000s or 2010s? Maybe back during a time when the process wasn't this stringent or when it was a labor market?
It's just my opinion, man ¯_(ツ)_/¯