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I don’t know. I don’t see how anybody could know which companies you mean when you say big 5 tech companies. Which ones did you mean?
by lawnchair_larry 7y ago
I don’t know. I don’t see how anybody could know which companies you mean when you say big 5 tech companies. Which ones did you mean?
- stale2002 7y agoIt is a short hand for the major/prestigious tech companies. So it would be Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and maybe Netflix depending on who you ask. And yes, I know that is more than 5 companies. It is a shorthand for "those prestigious, large tech companies that new grads apply to, and hire lots of people, and have large market caps". If I talk to any new grad who is applying to companies these day, they will know what I mean when I say "big 5 tech companies". This is a very common term in the interview/tech market and discussions.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoYeah, new grads being confused doesn’t surprise me. We don’t call that big 5 in the real world ;)
- stale2002 7y agoLanguage is defined by how it is used. The fact that this is how people use these words, makes it the definition. Lots of people in the real world know exactly what it means when people say "big 5 tech companies". You'd have to be extremely obtuse to not know what people mean when they say those words.