[whymauri]

AFAIK, the FANG acronym was meant to represent the FAANG stocks, not the perceived quality of engineering within the industry.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

I didn't know that. I thought it was because of their engineering chops.

[stu2b50]

I'm pretty sure it was stock based. For one, Netflix is like, completely different than the rest. They only hire senior engineers and basically substitute a talent pipeline with giant wages.

FAANG internships always sounded weird, considering, y'know, Netflix doesn't do internships.

[ma2rten]

I think Netflix is just in there because FAANG sounds cool.

[redisman]

I always thought Big 4 was because they were basically the top 4 biggest market cap companies in the US

[dvlat]

I’m not sure if Netflix ever had market capitalization higher tahn Microsoft

[beefalo]

The term was coined by Jim Cramer as the group of well performing tech stocks