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Amazon is still a top 1% SWE employer. Note: I do not work for Amazon, and never plan to. I was considering it prior to making it into FANG. Unless they offer
by xenihn 5y ago
Amazon is still a top 1% SWE employer.
Note: I do not work for Amazon, and never plan to. I was considering it prior to making it into FANG.
Unless they offered me a bunch of money, I guess. Like a million dollars year.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoYour top 1% feels pretty expansive to me, I don't think many people consider it to be that impressive. I've talked to a lot of people about this, and they consider working at Amazon to be pretty similar to going to a state school - it's not "bad", but you can tell from the way they talk about it they think people that go there are objectively inferior to them.
- tomrod 5y agoI mean, Amazon has problems no doubt, but that's just straight up misplaced elitism. Remember, IBM was once where Google is now.
- jwilber 5y agoAnecdotally, I turned down Facebook for Amazon. Of my 10 person team, we have 2 Princeton, 2 Berkeley, 1 UPenn, 3 CMU, and 1 Stanford alumni. P.S. - talking’rank’ is something you don’t see outside of blind or college. Just pure cringe, lol. There’s more to your worth than your employer, especially if you’re (presumably) in the top 1-2% income bracket.
- darth_aardvark 5y agoGo back to Blind.
- estsauver 5y agoIt's the A in FANG...
- DocTomoe 5y agoThe A is for Apple. You're thinking of FAANG
- amazoniananon 5y agoI have never heard anyone claim that previously. Here is the first result I see when I search Google for FANG. It claims that A is Amazon, and that Apple was added later to make it FAANG. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fang-stocks-fb-amzn.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fang-stocks-fb-amzn.asp
- xenihn 5y agoI'm definitely using FANG as FAANG without Amazon. So does everyone else that I've seen use it on HN, Reddit, and Blind.
- RandomThrow321 5y agoYou're the first I've heard of. FANG was the original designation for the group of high-growth tech stocks, and the A stood for Amazon. This is pretty well known and verifiable. Are you sure you didn't just assume the A was for Apple when you read it? I don't know how you could possibly know what people were referring to from the acronym.
- xenihn 5y agoI'm going to respond to this question with one of my own: how much time have you spent on Blind in the past few weeks?
- rejectedandsad 5y agoIm sorry but what does that have to do with anything? I would have assumed the A is Amazon too
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