We're moving from the UK to another European country where no FANGs have an office.
My wife almost passed an interview at one of the FANG and she's thinking of doing the 2 months algorithms prep work and try again.
At the same time, we've both been working from home since before the pandemic and we're not happy to compromise on that, for no amount of money.
Now that COVID changed the playing field, we're seeing some FANGs open to remote work but they all seem to imply you're still an employee of the FANG, which means you're tied to remote in a country where the company has an office - do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company?
That may not help your current situation, but They are looking for the best talent anywhere in the world. They just would like remote workers to have experience working onsite with a team on a large project, preferably their own framework.
Otherwise - you should think hard on what your benefit is that a major employer would choose someone who needs training to get up to speed. For example, if you were really good at complexed systems, but didn't have specific experience - that could be very interesting to a FANG.
Hope that helps