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FAANG is 5 companies. Granted they have a lot of employees, but they do not make up a significant portion of all developers in the US.
by minkzilla 8y ago
FAANG is 5 companies. Granted they have a lot of employees, but they do not make up a significant portion of all developers in the US.
- all_blue_chucks 8y ago> they do not make up a significant portion of all developers in the US I'm not sure that's true, but I will admit that most of my friends work at FAANGs (outside the bay area). So let me add that I know at least one senior engineer at a non-FAANG tech company that left a $300k job for a "significant pay bump". Frankly, no large tech company could survive if it didn't pay competitively with other large tech companies. I fully agree that pay is less in small, non-tech companies in rural areas, but I would be surprised if such businesses hire the majority of developers. Big tech hires a LOT of engineers.
- minkzilla 8y agoAll numbers from statista.com Alphabet - 98,000 (2018) Facebook - 35,000 (2018) Apple - 123,000 (2018) Netflix - 5,500 (2017) Amazon - 647,500 (2018) Total - ~909,000 That is total number of employees worldwide. so lets conservatively take off a third. Also Reasonably only a third of those employees (probably a lot less at amazon) are actually developers. That gives us ~200,000. The Bureau of Labor statics says there are 1,200,000 software developers in the US in 2016. FAANG does make up a lot more software development jobs than I thought, I would have to say a significant portion. Very interesting.