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On the tech side, is it still a FAANG company ie a reputable place to work with good compensation?

I 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

Apple 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…

I 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.

They sure know how to present themselves authoritatively at tech conferences. Maybe that's it.

I always wonder why Netflix not Microsoft is included? FAAMG would be strange though.

Facebook 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.

And Google is Alphabet . . . MAMAA!

In France we actually use GAFAM, so we include Microsoft but not Netflix

> 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.

With F being Meta now, it’d be MAAMG.. AMAMG.. GAAMM.. GAMMA?

With Google being Alphabet now, it's be MAMAA

“FAANG” is a term that was coined in 2013 by CNBC personality Jim Cramer to describe the most prominent companies in the tech sector.

They are definitely still paying FAANG salaries: 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.

Sure, 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.

Oh, 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.

They’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.

They 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.

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