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No 'M' in FAANG ;-) (Sorry, couldn't help myself! Many people still refer to it as a FAANG company)
by caust1c 6y ago
No 'M' in FAANG ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't help myself! Many people still refer to it as a FAANG company)
- echelon 6y agoFAAMG is so much more appropriate to describe the dominant tech players. People just like the sound of "FAANG". Netflix doesn't come close to matching Microsoft or the others.
- sweeneyrod 6y agoGAFAM is the more sensible acronym.
- dimitrios1 6y agoIn terms of what? Money and power? Certainly not. Engineering chops? Well-run organizations? Doing interesting and fun work? Absolutely. Probably even more so.
- kirubakaran 6y agoMarket Cap
- cactus2093 6y agoDoes Microsoft generally pay software engineers as much as Netflix though? My impression is no.
- vayeate 6y agoAlso my impression. FAANG isn't necessarily about market cap, it's about the highest paying and sexiest jobs you can get for a large employer
- quicklime 6y agoThe term FANG (and FAANG) was coined and popularized by stock market investors, not tech workers/job hunters. So it's about the highest growth large-cap tech stocks, not the absolute largest market caps or most well-paid/prestigious jobs. It was coined in the Ballmer days, when MSFT's stock price had been stagnant for about a decade, so no surprise that it got left out. Things are different today though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FAANG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FAANG
- site-packages1 6y agoI keep hearing FAMGAN to describe these, Facebook Apple Microsoft Google Amazon Netflix.
- ghaff 6y agoIt probably depends on the criteria. Is this the biggest West Coast relatively sexy tech employers or is it the large-ish companies with the highest average comp for a given level of software engineer? (I actually agree that, in general, Microsoft probably belongs on the list more than Netflix does.)
- J0_k3r 6y agoI just go with FAGMAN, it rolls off the tongue nicely
- Jommi 6y agoive heard FANMAG mulitple times nowadays.
- benatkin 6y agoI think that for it to make sense, Netflix needs to be removed just as much as Microsoft needs to be added.
- 3pt14159 6y agoHollywood is terrified of Netflix. It's much more exciting than Microsoft.
- Jommi 6y agoI think you're underestimating the international potential of Netflix. The only place where they are facing any competition is the US. Even there the content produced by their competitors is getting bought by Netflix later down the line for international distribution.
- ryandrake 6y agoIf you drop a few you can have MAGA - Microsoft Amazon Google Apple :-)
- benatkin 6y agoIf you add a fictional one and switch out a social network you can cave MATH - Microsoft Amazon Twitter Hooli
- benatkin 6y agoThanks to cheems I now prefer the sound of FAAMG :) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cheems https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cheems
- Darkstryder 6y agoIn France the acronym that stuck was GAFA, or GAFAM if you want to includes Microsoft. I always prefered GAFA / GAFAM to FAANG. However GAFA probably sounds better to the ear when pronounced the French way than the English way. This may explains that.
- J0_k3r 6y agowhich is why we ought to switch to the all-encompassing FAGMAN acronym
- I-M-S 6y agoQuestion: shouldn't G actually be another A? Or are we actually referring to Google entity of Alphabet corporation?
- mywittyname 6y agoFA*M. Or we could add SFDC, Uber, and Palantir to form SUP FAM.