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One or two of those will be dropped in the next decade or two. It is how things go. In fact, Netflix is only there nowadays to avoid the acronym from becoming
by DevKoala 5y ago
One or two of those will be dropped in the next decade or two. It is how things go.
In fact, Netflix is only there nowadays to avoid the acronym from becoming offensive.
- jhickok 5y agoAnd it doesn't include Microsoft for some reason. FANMAG always made more sense to me.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoSince Google is Alphabet, we can use FAAAM (or FAAAMN) instead.
- DevKoala 5y agoI like that one.
- zacherates 5y ago... because FAANG was about compensation and MS is not competitive (at least for mid-career hires). Take a look at levels 62 / 63 at MS vs. comparable roles at FAANGs: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Facebook,Microsoft&track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Facebook,Micro...
- jhickok 5y agoI won't pretend to understand how these levels compare, but it looks on par with Apple, no? My understanding of FANG initially was that it was about tech stock performance and not compensation.
- ghaff 5y agoYes, Jim Cramer coined the term AFAIK. Though it did map reasonably well to comp, in part because tech workers usually had RSUs as a major part of their comp.