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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.)

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

With the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.

You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.

In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.

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).

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!

As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.

You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works

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).

MAAAM or MAMAA

It would be quite the GAAF

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

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

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.

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.

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