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Maybe my friends are all just bad devs but I don't hear of people getting treated well at FAANG anymore. (Though I haven't heard anything about Netlifx recently

Maybe my friends are all just bad devs but I don't hear of people getting treated well at FAANG anymore. (Though I haven't heard anything about Netlifx recently.)

tehlike 3y ago
Maybe they are busy working - after while layoffs everyone is working a bit more to say the truth
- y-c-o-m-b 3y ago
  I'm at a FAANG, still getting treated like shit. The problems outlined in the article are 1000x worse in a FAANG and you'll have the same 99% of the people that have drank the proverbial kool-aid telling you everything is great and it's supposed to function like this. At least you get paid more for it though.
  - tehlike 3y ago
    True, and not true. It's nuanced. It depends a lot on the org. I have moved from admob (google ads) to robotics to facebook, and worked with different orgs, and have seen differences.
Tao3300 3y ago
I think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.
- delecti 3y ago
  Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).
  - Groxx 3y ago
    I think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid. MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!
  - hnuser123456 3y ago
    MAAAM or MAMAA
  - petters 3y ago
    You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works
  - Chilko 3y ago
    As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.
  - bigstrat2003 3y ago
    FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).
- tubthumper8 3y ago
  With the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.
  - nehal3m 3y ago
    You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.
    - Throw10987 3y ago
      In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.
- jihadjihad 3y ago
  It would be quite the GAAF
BlueTemplar 3y ago
Outside of the Silicon Valley they are called GAFAM (Netflix out, Microsoft in).

Maybe my friends are all just bad devs but I don't hear of people getting treated well at FAANG anymore. (Though I haven't heard anything about Netlifx recently.)

tehlike 3y ago

Maybe they are busy working - after while layoffs everyone is working a bit more to say the truth

y-c-o-m-b 3y ago
I'm at a FAANG, still getting treated like shit. The problems outlined in the article are 1000x worse in a FAANG and you'll have the same 99% of the people that have drank the proverbial kool-aid telling you everything is great and it's supposed to function like this. At least you get paid more for it though.
- tehlike 3y ago
  True, and not true. It's nuanced. It depends a lot on the org. I have moved from admob (google ads) to robotics to facebook, and worked with different orgs, and have seen differences.

Tao3300 3y ago

I think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.

delecti 3y ago
Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).
- Groxx 3y ago
  I think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid. MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!
- hnuser123456 3y ago
  MAAAM or MAMAA
- petters 3y ago
  You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works
- Chilko 3y ago
  As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago
  FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).
tubthumper8 3y ago
With the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.
- nehal3m 3y ago
  You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.
  - Throw10987 3y ago
    In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.
jihadjihad 3y ago
It would be quite the GAAF

BlueTemplar 3y ago

Outside of the Silicon Valley they are called GAFAM (Netflix out, Microsoft in).