The real opportunities to dodge taxes are only available to founders and major stakeholders. At those levels you can take out extremely low interest loans backed by your stock to fund your lifestyle. These loans are continually rolled over, and only finally paid back upon your death (via sales of stock). Even if your initial grant of stock was taxed as income, as is usually the case for non-founder executives, the tax reduction is significant.

Regular engineers at FAANG companies don't get anywhere near enough stock granted to them to pull this off. It would be legal too, they just don't have enough shares to convince Wall Street to let them.