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Re:Tech company career ladders by WorkLifeBalance on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:21AM (#16911109)
I feel like Netflix is only in there to make the acronym, does it really belong?

It's an odd collection, the others are tech giants yet there's no microsoft and netflix thrown in. Netflix is big but it's not Apple big.

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Re:Tech company career ladders by QGmLe on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:07AM (#16911525)
It is a stock thing. All of those companies have well performing stocks.
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Re:Tech company career ladders by s2g on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @12:56PM (#16914354)
Microsoft stock is up 80% in the last 2 years.

edit: and they are ahead of google in market cap again. Been going back and forth for the last little while.

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Re:Tech company career ladders by gregknicholson on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:46AM (#16911205)
The acronym I've heard is GAFAM: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft.

Judging by http://enwp.org/Largest_companies as of right now, the order should probably be AGMAF (Apple first) instead.

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Re:Tech company career ladders by ObnoxiousProxy on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:13AM (#16911555)
FAANG is usually used in the context of investments/stocks. These 5 have consistently been some of the highest growth tech stocks in the past couple of years.
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