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0 pointswhymauri6y ago0 comments

AFAIK, the FANG acronym was meant to represent the FAANG stocks, not the perceived quality of engineering within the industry.

0 pointswhymauri6y ago0 comments

AFAIK, the FANG acronym was meant to represent the FAANG stocks, not the perceived quality of engineering within the industry.

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x86_64Ubuntu6y ago· 5 in thread

I didn't know that. I thought it was because of their engineering chops.

stu2b506y ago

I'm pretty sure it was stock based. For one, Netflix is like, completely different than the rest. They only hire senior engineers and basically substitute a talent pipeline with giant wages.

FAANG internships always sounded weird, considering, y'know, Netflix doesn't do internships.

ma2rten6y ago

I think Netflix is just in there because FAANG sounds cool.

redisman6y ago

I always thought Big 4 was because they were basically the top 4 biggest market cap companies in the US

dvlat6y ago

I’m not sure if Netflix ever had market capitalization higher tahn Microsoft

beefalo6y ago

The term was coined by Jim Cramer as the group of well performing tech stocks

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