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What I will never understand is how harmless old Netflix found its way into an acronym for the big beasts of tech. Not even Microsoft gets that privilege (for some reason).

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The acronym wasn't so much about 'the Big Tech' companies, more about 'Innovative tech companies that dominate, or are poised to dominate, their market'.

Also remember that the landscape has changed since the initial FANG acronym came into existence.

It was specifically a Jim Cramer-coined term for companies whose stock was hot at the time--which correlated somewhat loosely with both comp and dominance. Netflix is somewhat of an outlier in various respects and arguably Microsoft should probably be on the list today--even if the WA-headquartered companies tend to pay less than the CA-based ones.

$600,000/year compensation for programmers

Is this for real? I thought $400k was sort the max for regular high end engineers.

You have to consider total comp and then factor in that Netflix only pays cash but competes against the others. So you can get 600k at Meta via cash+equity+bonus you get the same all in salary and bonus from Netflix.

Oh, it's for real alright: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Netflix/salaries/Software-Eng...

Easily over a million for high end/staff eng at FAANG/ish companies.

I think it's literally just that they pay well

I've heard it as MAGMA recently

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