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I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.
by sabas123 6y ago
I 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/
- lotsofpulp 6y agoYes, but I figured MS compensation is more similar to other FAANG companies than non FAANG companies for the purposes of someone looking for a higher paying job.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind You could bikeshed including or excluding particular companies forever. Probably not useful to do.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoFAANGMULTAD is the term (meme) you're looking for. M - Microsoft U - Uber L - Lyft T - Twitter A - AirBnB D - Dropbox
- dominotw 6y agoSurprised that Dropbox is still going strong and is offering competitive compensation. I had def written it off couple of years ago.
- tobr 6y agoGLUM DATA FAN https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=FAANGMULTAD&t=500&a=n https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=FAANGM...
- alex-treebeard 6y agoAlso a description of how many of the employees feel
- smoe 6y agoI think it should be FAANGMULTAD+ to be more inclusive of other, maybe overlooked high growth tech startups.
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- chourobin 6y agocan microsoft compete on pay?
- rodiger 6y agoWith places like Amazon? Most definitely.
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- jedberg 6y agoIt was originally a wall street term to refer to a specific set of high growth tech stocks. Microsoft was not high growth.
- swyx 6y agoi prefer MANGA for the list of desirable bigcos to work. Don't know anyone who wants to work at FB (that isnt currently there) and its a much better acronym.
- philangist 6y agoI heard GAANDU (Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber) a few years ago. Apparently it's a hindi word that means asshole.
- decafninja 6y agoI remember a scant five or so years ago the term that was used was "Big 4", referring to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and one one of either Twitter, Microsoft, or Apple. Now Apple is firmly a member of the club, Twitter seems completely rejected, Microsoft sort of a second tier citizen, and Netflix has joined out of left field.