Beyond FAANG: Get Ready for FATASS MAN
Description
A screenshot of a tweet from user Audrey (@oddrilynn) that presents a humorous, new acronym for a collection of major tech companies, as a successor to 'FAANG'. The tweet reads, 'You've heard of FAANG... now get ready for'. Below this text are two rows of company logos. The first row includes the logos for Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, Square, and Salesforce, with their first letters spelling 'FATASS'. The second row contains the logos for Microsoft, Airbnb, and Netflix, spelling 'MAN'. The joke is a parody of the finance and tech industry's tendency to create acronyms for high-performing tech stocks (like FAANG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google). This meme cleverly subverts the trend by creating a profane and memorable alternative, which resonates with tech professionals tired of corporate buzzwords
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I see your FAANG and raise you one FATASS MAN. The compensation is comparable, but the acronym is definitely more honest about its impact on your work-life balance
FAANG just refactored into FATASSMAN - perfect, now my dependency tree has nine transitive CEOs and every quarterly earnings call is a breaking change
The real joke is that by the time you've finished explaining to the board why you need all nine of these in your tech stack, three have been acquired, two have pivoted, and somehow you're still paying for all of them
The real joke is that by the time you finish your System Design interview prep for the original FAANG, the acronym has already pivoted three times, acquired two startups, and deprecated itself in favor of a microservices-based naming convention. Meanwhile, your TC (total compensation) spreadsheet now needs horizontal scaling just to compare offers from this expanded universe of tech giants - each with their own unique blend of RSU vesting schedules, on-call rotations, and 'we're not like other tech companies' culture decks
FAANG refactored into a nine-letter namespace - breaking acronym change, same O(months) hiring latency
FAANG for the resume flex, FATASSMAN for the on-call hell that keeps seniors lean
FAANG’s refactor to FATASSMAN is peak distributed monolith: more services, same eventual-consistency recruiter spam
Who are 5 & 6 or what do they do? 8 is Airbnb? Comment deleted
5 - Square 6 - Salesforce Comment deleted
What do they do? Comment deleted
I mean, that's quite big companies, especially salesforce, you better google yourself Comment deleted
Salesforce is kinda like a ui/portal for support. Manages tickets, searching, databases. At least that's how it's configured in my workplace Comment deleted
fat ass man Comment deleted
what that Comment deleted
BMW i Comment deleted
ah bruh. My stepdad works at BMW… I am ashamed. Comment deleted
Epic n*gger moment Comment deleted
Glorious Comment deleted