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Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by xenihn »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

Apple is a weird outlier here. Do people consider working at Apple the same as working at a FANG? From my experience and talking with people in the field, it's not really the same league, neither in work-life balance, pay, benefits, etc.

how is it an outlier? it is absolutely competitive when it comes to pay. benefits and WLB are comparable to Amazon, e.g. no free food (except for the infamous amazon bananas).

you could make the argument that neither of them belong on the list, but I would disagree with that too

i would look at these things when deciding which companies should be on the list:

is TC for the position (on average) in the top 5%?

is the company considered to be a potential terminal/apex in one's tech career? as in you could work there until retirement (potentially an early one if you are making enough money)

for the employees who don't stay forever, do they typically go between other employers in the set when switching jobs? (google fb is the main example i think about for this)

i want to include perceived prestige on this list too, but that seems way too difficult and subjective when it comes to quantifying it. one measurement would be how appealing your experience at a member of the set would make you to the rest of the industry as a candidate.

Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by dominotw »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #17
sabas123 wrote: post #5

I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.

FAANGMULTAD is the term (meme) you're looking for. M - Microsoft U - Uber L - Lyft T - Twitter A - AirBnB D - Dropbox

Surprised that Dropbox is still going strong and is offering competitive compensation. I had def written it off couple of years ago.

Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by jedberg »

sabas123 wrote: post #5

I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.

It was originally a wall street term to refer to a specific set of high growth tech stocks. Microsoft was not high growth.

Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by swyx »

sabas123 wrote: post #5

I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.

i 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.

Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by tobr »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #17
sabas123 wrote: post #5

I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.

FAANGMULTAD is the term (meme) you're looking for. M - Microsoft U - Uber L - Lyft T - Twitter A - AirBnB D - Dropbox

GLUM DATA FAN

https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=FAANGM...

Re: Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot

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Post by philangist »

swyx wrote: post #27
sabas123 wrote: post #5

I still find it strange that tech people adopted FAANG as a term. Including Apple and Netflix but not Microsoft still boggles my mind.

i 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.

I heard GAANDU (Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Dropbox, Uber) a few years ago. Apparently it's a hindi word that means asshole.
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