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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by fizwhiz on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:50PM (#19494286)
What's the Big 4 in this context? Generally that term applies to accounting firms (PWC, E&Y etc.)
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by rekwah on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:54PM (#19494341)
Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_tech_companies

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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by isimluk on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:34PM (#19495768)
ibm, microsoft, dell, hp
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by CalChris on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:12PM (#19494510)
That used to be The Big 8 and people knew of them as The Big 8, even me. I think that The Big 4 is used now with a tinge of irony.

  Arthur Andersen.
  Coopers and Lybrand.
  Deloitte Haskins and Sells.
  Ernst and Whinney.
  Peat Marwick Mitchell.
  Price Waterhouse.
  Touche Ross.
  Arthur Young.
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by subscope on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:55PM (#19494354)
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google.
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by orky56 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:55PM (#19494348)
Usually FAANG pre-Netflix
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by cmonnow on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:31PM (#19495243)
faag ?
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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are in... by dang on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @05:20PM (#19496127)
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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