Data Center Development at FAANG?
Does anyone have any insight into the roles that revolve around building data centers at a FAANG company? Looking for day-to-day job duties, comp, hours, culture, etc. What these companies are looking for in a new hire. Typical background, YoE, degrees, and what not. So far, I have heard that comp can be anywhere from $150K - 300K, which is a broad range. Hours seem to be 9-10 hours a day. Which is enticing. There's little intel on this subject on WSO. I have spoken with a couple of people over the horn, but wanted to broaden my research with a good ol WSO post.
Curious about this as well. Anecdotally, I've seen a ton of people that start in project management as consultants get hired by FAANG companies for data center development. Specific example: project manager at CBRE or similar that is solely working on Google's datacenter construction -> gets hired by Google in-house after a couple years. It seems like the progression is mostly from the project management side but that's just from what I've seen. Day to day as a project manager is managing construction, the team (architects, GC, structural engineers, and IT consultants), managing the schedule, budget, etc. You'd likely be on-site quite often checking progress.
Would love to hear more from someone actually in it.
I posted this before in another thread, but posting again here.
I did a short stent in corporate real estate at a tech company. Pay was fine but had less upside, work life balance was great. Honestly was the easiest job I have ever had, I worked 4 hrs a day and was a top performer (likely would need to work more today given the clamp down on tech). It’s a low bar to impress because by there really isn't a lot of top real estate talent going to work for these companies, generally. A lot of the people that I thought were good exited from these companies back into real estate as a developer that services tech/F500 clients.
I think the pay for some of these jobs can be almost 2-300k total comp with RSUs today. Ultimately left because it seemed like a place where good careers go to die. At a certain point your experience becomes super specific, and no longer applicable to the rest of the industry. Nothing beats merchant development when it comes to the highs of this business in my opinion. You have the ability to really influence outcomes and with that comes the potential for a lot of money. You don’t get that working in corporate real estate, you are just a small cog in a huge machine. Remember this is a facilities job not real estate investments, you will take a big step away from "making the money" for the company, so if you pivot to this from a developer, know that your career will be capped unless you move away from real estate to the business side.
Yes. Read your comment. Good stuff. Do you have any info on interview process? I have applied to a number of these postings.
Thanks
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