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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by r0rshrk on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:23AM (#30944796)
> I could try to progress my career, but I'm already earning good money and I know to earn more I'd have to either start job hopping or study some leetcode to get into a FAANG.

I know this was not the point of your comment, but trust me that one can pass FAANG interviews without grinding Leetcode.

If you're seriously considering a job search, I would recommend going through jobsearch.dev

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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by skinnymuch on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:16PM (#30946529)
When people use FAANG in these discussions. Is it literally those five companies and a handful of other high end growth companies (Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla?)? The number still being single digit. Or is it representing a handful more companies than fhat?
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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by positr0n on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:14PM (#30983818)
To me it can have a few meanings based on context, which I'm sure everyone has their own interpretation ha.

Sometimes it means "giant influential tech companies" in which case you could make a good case that Netflix doesn't belong and some others could be added.

In a career focused context like this I interpret it as "any tech company where most devs easily earn $300k+". So the original FANG plus a bunch of others, including smaller companies like Uber or Splunk.

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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by skinnymuch on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:01PM (#31033860)
Yeah the last paragraph is what I was thinking when I asked.

For sure Netflix doesn’t belong. Meta doesn’t either as of end of 2021 if it’s also about growth alongside influential. Tesla, Nvidia slide in perfectly.

Then there’s a sizable tail end of $100B+ companies and many under $75B with growth potential. AMD, PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, for $100B ones. Square, Atlassian, Datadog, Cloudflare, some cybersecurity firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, would fit in too. These are too small right now though.

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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by reciprocity on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:49PM (#30947067)
FAANG usually refers specifically to those companies. GAFAM is another acronym which exchanges Netflix with Microsoft.
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Re:I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also... by interestica on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:24PM (#30947603)
You have to replace with Meta and Alphabet too... MAMAA
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