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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by returningfory2 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:06PM (#33198116)
Genuine question: what does FANGish mean?
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by Ozzie_osman on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:16PM (#33198191)
Resembling FANG: large, high-paying consumer tech co. My guess is it could be Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, something like that.
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by returningfory2 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:18PM (#33253284)
Makes sense, thank you!
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by site-packages1 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:17PM (#33198197)
Microsoft.
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by user_named on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:04PM (#33198498)
Amazon
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by lolinder on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:34PM (#33199006)
If it were Amazon they would have just said FAANG.
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by user_named on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:41AM (#33201444)
Amazon is not part of FAANG
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by Hermitian909 on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:54PM (#33207429)
F - Facebook A - Apple A - Amazon N - Netflix G - Google

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp

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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by user_named on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:44AM (#33230447)
No that's Albertsons
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Re:How much have layoffs affected engineers vs. other depart... by fideloper on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:45PM (#33199076)
My initial guess was Facebook, which is now called Meta and therefore isn't F any longer. "ish" is just enough plausible deniability.
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