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Quick question, who are the "Big-4"? I count Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft at a minimum.
by krschultz 11y ago
Quick question, who are the "Big-4"? I count Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft at a minimum.
- pjbrunet 11y agoThe "big 4" consulting giants, Google it.
- crucialfelix 11y agoPricewater Coopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG
- imjk 11y agoI assumed he was talking about accounting firms: PWC, EY, Deloitte, & KPMG.
- e12e 11y agoMe too - and that was the first hit on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28audit_firms%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28audit_firms%29 However, if we look at the disambiguation, we find at the bottom of the subsection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four#Companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four#Companies "Big Four, the most influential international technology companies Amazon.com, Apple Inc, Facebook and Google". So I'd say it's pretty ambiguous.
- jordanb 11y agoI see "Big 4" on r/cscareerquestions a lot. It seems to have been invented by that sub as some kind of mythical club of golden programmer employers. It came from accounting/consulting where there are four really big consulting giants: (KPMG, Earnst & Young, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Deloitte). Interestingly enough, the above aren't known for being particularly nice employers. On the sub the inclusion in the "big four" varies a bit, Google is the only one who's always in it. Others sometimes included are Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Adobe.
- eecks 11y agoI honestly never hear anything about Adobe. MS seems strikingly average and Twitter seems like a place I wouldn't want to work.
- kevan 11y agoUsually when I hear it people are talking about Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon [1], but in the last couple years it seems like Microsoft is getting back in gear. [1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-sanity-check/schmidt-calls-tech-a-4-way-race-google-apple-amazon-and-facebook/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-sanity-check/schmidt-c...
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- GBond 11y agoFANG = FB, AMZN, NFLX, GOOG
- eranation 11y agoGoogle, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft originally (Or Apple instead of MS depends on who you ask) but this usually also included companies that are very competitive and pay a huge salary package, e.g. Apple, LinkedIn, Netflix, even Twitter although it is far from the same market cap as the others in the list. So I mean "top tech companies", sorry for the confusion!