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Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot
- AnotherGoodName 6y agoCategorization is necessary for this and also completely missing here.
- timwheeler 6y agoCurrently just a side-project so it's not very feature-rich. Good point though, thanks for the feedback.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoApple is a weird outlier here. Do people consider working at Apple the same as working at a FANG? From my experience and talking with people in the field, it's not really the same league, neither in work-life balance, pay, benefits, etc.
- cpufry 6y agowait why is it different in work-life balance
- ptmcc 6y agoApple's reputation is for relatively poor work-life balance, plus living under a heavy shroud of secrecy even internally is tiring. But like any huge company, "it depends".
- the_only_law 6y agoIt’s a shame because Apple has some of the more interesting faang jobs I’ve seen (personal opinion ofc) but I just continuously see negative things about it from relatively poor pay, to forcing people to give up their side projects to requiring cult like obsession with the company.
- throwaway45349 6y agoThe term "FAANG" is about prestige (originally stock growth) more than actual quality of life.
- jrockway 6y agoI think Apple is included because the pay/benefits are similar.
- xenihn 6y agohow is it an outlier? it is absolutely competitive when it comes to pay. benefits and WLB are comparable to Amazon, e.g. no free food (except for the infamous amazon bananas). you could make the argument that neither of them belong on the list, but I would disagree with that too i would look at these things when deciding which companies should be on the list: is TC for the position (on average) in the top 5%? is the company considered to be a potential terminal/apex in one's tech career? as in you could work there until retirement (potentially an early one if you are making enough money) for the employees who don't stay forever, do they typically go between other employers in the set when switching jobs? (google <-> fb is the main example i think about for this) i want to include perceived prestige on this list too, but that seems way too difficult and subjective when it comes to quantifying it. one measurement would be how appealing your experience at a member of the set would make you to the rest of the industry as a candidate.
- tfsh 6y agoIt seems like this is US only, I initially thought the search functionality was broken when it showed no jobs in London (UK). Is there a technical limitation as to why this has been kept US centric, if so this should be reflected in the website heading to prevent confusion and wasted time.
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- timwheeler 6y agoThere's no technical limitation, only a time constraint thus far as it's just a side project. The main piece of feedback I've received is to provide FAANG listings outside of the US, so I will work on that next. Thanks for the input!
- sabas123 6y agoI still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.
- vmception 6y agoIt was wall street on Blind people take the meme to another level, to be more inclusive
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- lotsofpulp 6y agoIs it important to include every company’s initial? The purpose is to convey the idea of companies that have extremely good cash flow, and can compensate extremely well with equity due to consistent long term growth. It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG”, but throwing an M or other letter in there is going to make it harder to roll off the tongue.
- izolate 6y ago> It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG” Then why is faang.io using a strict definition of FAANG? I think a loose definition is preferable, but clearly that's not a universally-held opinion.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoThat is a good point, I guess I'm just used to seeing it in discussions where the context is distinguishing companies with high pay and valuable RSUs versus others.
- Judgmentality 6y ago> It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG” Doesn't MS pay substantially less though? My peers at MS make way less than my peers at Google, Facebook, and the others in FAANG. The only one that kinda sorta underpays is Amazon, but if you consider the stock appreciation they sometimes did better. https://www.levels.fyi/ https://www.levels.fyi/
- vmception 6y agoI got kicked off of Blind, but my favorite meme there was all the variations of FAANG that were more inclusive, I liked FAANGMULA and TARANTULA What are people saying there now?
- yowlingcat 6y agoHow did you get kicked off Blind? The standard for discourse there is uhh aggressive and inflammatory to put it lightly. Not to say there isn't value (there are tons of really intelligent and helpful people on the forum) but I wonder how far you have to go to get removed.
- vmception 6y agoyou get kicked off for not having an email address from a target company this is not automatically moderated
- yowlingcat 6y agoI don't know if this will be particularly useful. The problem with job applications is that they're flooded with crap so there's a noise issue. The way to cut through that noise is to understand that you need to extend your candidacy via someone inside the organization who has a vested interest in moving you forward. That person is a referrer and/or a recruiter. Without either of those two participating in some way shape or form in this kind of an idea, I'm afraid it isn't going to be terribly useful for candidates.
- pmarreck 6y agoThese companies really don't need any additional attention. (I say this as a fan of most of them.) As a "startup guy," I'd strongly suggest looking elsewhere unless you have a spouse and 3 kids and really need those FAANG bennies
- superdimwit 6y agoor a husband?
- pmarreck 6y agoAh. My bad. Will edit. :: pinches self ::
- ganstyles 6y agoMy startup offers better benefits than any of those, and better salary, with the caveat that we're pre IPO/exit/whatever so you can't turn around and sell the vested stock immediately like you can at those companies. Point is: not all startups have non comparable benefits.
- pmarreck 6y agoGreat! Also, you should promote your startup without shame here, but I appreciate the discretion
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- ofcrpls 6y ago0 results for ATL area, though FAANG has active open listings in the area.
- nooyurrsdey 6y agoSame, was looking for atlanta :/
- WaitWaitWha 6y agoWhat is my benefit to give my email and thumbs up/down & details about job post to you? That is, why should I generate information for you for free?
- timwheeler 6y agoProviding your email will subscribe you to a newsletter that will send you (remote) FAANG job listings. The upvote/downvote is not entirely wired up at the moment, but the intention is to eventually sort listings similar to that of most content aggregators - by relevance - as opposed to just sorting by date desc.
- WaitWaitWha 6y agoMy apologies; I did not make myself clear enough. What is your business proposition to lure me from the other myriads of job sites? Ultimately, what is your business product? Fro example, Google's & Facebook's product is the user (and their behavior). For Netflix it is streaming videos, while Amazon is the products sold by them.
- conqrr 6y agoNot a fan of the acronym at all, its been misused a lot. However, if there's a website out there that allows me to apply do multiple job listings in one click that'd be awesome. Imaging having to go through a variety of ATS like workday. Not to mention, often times, the info within the same company isn't reused. I'd be sold if all of that was taken care of with a single click.
- choward 6y agoBut why though?
- timwheeler 6y agowhy not though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- busymom0 6y agoThe top listing is for a job from rezi.io. Why's that if it's only FAANG?
- timwheeler 6y agoIt’s tagged as a “promo” for which I’ve allocated (currently) one spot for tools and resources aimed at helping people get into FAANG