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by celim307 2866 days ago
What's a FANG developer?
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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Jim Cramer created the acronym to name these four companies as high-performing tech stocks years ago [0]. But now, as in the above usage, it is more of a catch-all name for the big tech companies. And in its new role as a name for a category of companies, people confuse Amazon/Apple, and also implicitly include other equivalent companies.

[0] https://www.thestreet.com/story/13230576/1/what-are-fang-sto...

Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google
I still find Netflix a curious addition to that list.
for the acronym.
yes Netflix is definitely necessary ;)
No Amazon?
I've often seen it as FAANG, putting the good Lord Bezos back in the mix.
I like patio11's acronym (?) of choice better: AppAmaGooBookSoft.
Portmanteau.
AKA “GAFAM”.
From an software engineering perspective it’s a travesty to include Apple and not Amazon.