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On the tech side, is it still a FAANG company ie a reputable place to work with good compensation?
by travisporter 3y ago
On the tech side, is it still a FAANG company ie a reputable place to work with good compensation?
- Almondsetat 3y agoI feel like Netflix is still being included in FAANG because otherwise it would become a slur. Other than that I don't get why we still value it so high in the tech world
- elashri 3y agoI always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though.
- kowbell 3y agoWith F being Meta now, it’d be MAAMG.. AMAMG.. GAAMM.. GAMMA?
- Zambyte 3y agoWith Google being Alphabet now, it's be MAMAA
- Uehreka 3y agoFacebook is now called Meta, so the new acronym could be MAGMA. I’ve been pushing this for years, it’s the obvious choice, but people keep saying FAANG anyway.
- drewcoo 3y agoAnd Google is Alphabet . . . MAMAA!
- rakoo 3y agoIn France we actually use GAFAM, so we include Microsoft but not Netflix
- drewcoo 3y ago> I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though. Because by the time the term was coined, Microsoft was a slow-turning behemoth that had shed a lot of talent to help create the internal engineering cultures at the non-Apple others. Apple doesn't really belong in FAANG either, but at one point including Apple made it seem cooler.
- tengbretson 3y agoThey sure know how to present themselves authoritatively at tech conferences. Maybe that's it.
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- bee_rider 3y agoApple doesn’t even fit in there, it is a devices company first. AINA: Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD, these companies actually design physical things that have to deal with the hostility of the real world, IMO they are much more impressive. Of course 3/4 lean on TSMC for the hardest part, so…
- BeetleB 3y agoI think the FAANG acronym was created originally to distinguish companies that paid really high salaries for tech. And for a while (if not still true), they paid the highest.
- magneticnorth 3y agoThey are definitely still paying FAANG salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Netflix&track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Netflix&trac... Their reputation might not be quite as stellar as it once was, but afaik nowhere near enough of a drop to overcome the fact that they've made a lot of top-tier hires and are still paying top tier comp - I think they're still a very desirable place to work and have on a resume.
- eloisant 3y agoSure, but they are much smaller than the real "big tech": Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft. They are also still mono-product unlike the big tech that span multiple domains. It doesn't make much sense to make a group of big tech companies with Netflix and leave out Microsoft.
- bombcar 3y agoThey’re also the easiest to abandon of all of them (for their customers) as there’s no real pain or lock-in. Amazon might be second easiest if you aren’t using AWS.
- magneticnorth 3y agoOh, yes, I completely agree Microsoft should be in “FAANG” (and that acronym is outdated). But for the question of whether Netflix's compensation and reputation are still at that level - reputation maybe is debatable, comp is definitely still there.
- andsoitis 3y ago“FAANG” is a term that was coined in 2013 by CNBC personality Jim Cramer to describe the most prominent companies in the tech sector.
- y-c-o-m-b 3y agoThey are still offering fully remote engineering roles, so that's a huge plus. Not sure if it's bait and switch like Meta's advertised "remote" roles though.