Failed my last course in University, which meant I had to complete another semester on an already 5 year degree. Graduated with a GPA that people didn't believe it was possible to graduate with.
Guess what, it never mattered. I worked my way from a 5 person consulting gig to FANG now over a 10+ year period. My grades, the school I went to, and the amount of time I took to complete my degree has never mattered.
My advice for everyone is, work hard and be curious. Take each failure with a grain of salt and keep trying.
I grew up in a mining town in northern Canada where the company provided everything you mention, plus summer jobs at the mine, chartered plane to pick up students, train tickets for vehicles, and much more.
The mine was originally owned by a group that started in the area so they had incentives to make the area great for the employees. Which they did, my grandfather and father got great paying jobs that allowed them to support their families.
But then a massive mining company came in and bought majority shares in the mine and they have been scraping these benefits ever since.
My point is, you never know what's going to happen. So don't get to attached to these benefits. For most places that's alright because there are other opportunities, but in a mining town there generally is one employer.
As someone who has been doing primarily Android engineering for the last 7 years. I am not surprised they are still hiring Android people. It is really hard to hire Android people. Every company I’ve worked (FANNG included) at struggled to fill Android roles. TikTok has reached out to me every month for the last year or so as well.
Hospitals shouldn't be a profitable business. The primary goal of a hospital should be serving patients sickness. (Easier said than done)
My partner is a physician at a hospital in NYC, and something that they are struggling with now is lack of social services for patients to get them out of hospital beds and into homes/rehabs.
As a immigrant in this country, I am constantly flabbergasted by the state of healthcare here and people's willingness to accept hospitals as profit seeking businesses the same as a fortune 500.
Obviously if the law allows these hospitals to seek profits, they will. So the question is, how do we change the law? And why don't people want to change it?
Guess what, it never mattered. I worked my way from a 5 person consulting gig to FANG now over a 10+ year period. My grades, the school I went to, and the amount of time I took to complete my degree has never mattered.
My advice for everyone is, work hard and be curious. Take each failure with a grain of salt and keep trying.