# moreThanFAANGM: A Curated List of 482 Product Companies for Software Engineers to Apply > moreThanFAANGM is a community-maintained MIT-licensed repository of 482 product-based companies and good startups, organized alphabetically with direct links to each company's careers page. It is aimed at software engineers in India and internationally who want a pre-screened starting point for job applications beyond the well-known handful of major tech firms. **Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM** — This repository contains opportunities for you to apply to more than 400 product base companies(NOT JUST FAANGM) & good start-ups. - Repository: https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM - Website: https://kaustubh-natuskar.github.io/moreThanFAANGM/ - Stars: 5,237 · Forks: 1,046 - Language: Unknown - License: MIT - Published: 2026-09-23 · Updated: 2026-09-23 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/kaustubh-natuskar-morethanfaangm ## What moreThanFAANGM Is and Who It Serves moreThanFAANGM is a repository containing a single curated list. The list addresses a common situation for software engineering job seekers: most public job search advice focuses on a short list of major technology companies, and engineers who want to consider the broader market must compile their own targets. The repository description states it contains opportunities to apply to more than 400 product-based companies and good startups. The README table shows the current total as 482 companies. The target audience, based on the company mix and the repository's origin, is primarily software engineers in India, though the list includes companies with global hiring such as Airbnb, Adobe, Apple, and Atlassian alongside India-focused firms like Acko, Ajio, and Agnikul Cosmos. The list distinguishes between product-based companies and service-based companies. Product companies build software products and typically offer higher salaries and engineering-focused culture, which is the basis for the common preference expressed in job seeker communities. Service companies outsource engineering work. The repository's title and description use this framing to position the list as an alternative to recruiters who only discuss FAANG (Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) and its variants. ## List Structure and How to Navigate It The README is the entire product. It contains a navigation table at the top with letters A through Z and a section labeled 0-9, each linking to the alphabetically corresponding section below. The sections are HTML anchor tags embedded in the README. Under each letter, companies are listed as numbered hyperlinks pointing to the company's careers page. The numbering is sequential across the entire document, not restarted per letter. The README includes a comment in the source instructing contributors not to change the numbering. The GitHub Pages site at https://kaustubh-natuskar.github.io/moreThanFAANGM/ renders the same README content in a web browser with standard GitHub Markdown formatting. The site is generated from the _config.yml file in the repository root, which configures GitHub Pages. The rendered website makes the alphabetical navigation somewhat easier to read than the raw README view on GitHub. The 'A' section illustrates the range: it lists Accenture, Accolite Software, Adobe, Amazon, Airbnb, Atlassian, Apple, and dozens of other companies from global names to Indian-market firms. Each entry is a named hyperlink with no further description of the company's size, technology stack, or open roles. ## What the 482 Companies Represent The company set includes firms across a range of sectors and sizes. In the sample visible in the README, the list contains large technology companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Adobe alongside startups such as Agnikul Cosmos (aerospace) and Acko (insurance technology). Financial services companies such as AQR, American Express, Alphonso, and Analog Devices appear alongside gaming and media companies such as Activision Blizzard. The repository does not document its inclusion criteria in the README. The GUIDELINES.MD file exists in the repository, likely documenting contribution rules, but its content is not included in the README excerpt. The description mentions product-based companies and good startups as the selection criteria. Companies with headquarters in India are well-represented, but the list is not limited to India; it includes firms from the United States, Europe, and global markets. The README does not indicate when each company was added or when career page links were last verified. A link added two years ago may point to a careers page that has since moved or a company that has since been acquired. ## Where This List Has Limits The list is static. It provides career page URLs, not current job postings. An engineer who visits a company's career page through this list must still search for relevant open roles on that page. The repository does not indicate which companies are currently hiring or what roles are available. The distinction between product-based and service-based is applied by the contributors, not by an objective criterion. Some companies span both categories or have shifted their business model since being added. The README does not document the rationale for individual company inclusions. Link rot is a structural problem. Company career pages move, companies get acquired, and some companies on the list may have ceased operations. The repository provides no mechanism for flagging or automatically checking stale links. Contributors must manually identify and report broken URLs through GitHub issues or pull requests. The list has no filtering capability. An engineer looking specifically for remote-first companies, companies working in a particular technology stack, or companies below a certain employee count cannot filter the list by those criteria within the repository itself. ## Comparing with LinkedIn Company Pages and Job Search LinkedIn provides a company directory alongside its job posting platform. Engineers can search companies by industry, size, location, and growth rate, and LinkedIn's feed surfaces job postings from those companies automatically. The difference in approach is data freshness: LinkedIn is employer-driven, meaning companies actively maintain their pages and post current roles. moreThanFAANGM is community-maintained and does not depend on companies participating. A company that has not created a LinkedIn presence or does not post jobs there could still be on this list if a community contributor added it. The tradeoff is that the list may include companies with more current postings than a search engine surfaces but provides no way to see those postings directly. For engineers doing a broad search, the list serves as a discovery tool, covering companies that an engineer may not have encountered through job board searches or recommendations. Once a target company is identified here, the engineer uses the linked careers page directly. ## Contributing and Maintenance The repository includes a GUIDELINES.MD file for contributors. The README instructs contributors not to change the sequential numbering when adding new entries, which preserves the document's internal stability and allows issues to reference specific numbered items. The last push to the repository was on 2026-08-10. The repository is released under the MIT license. There are no GitHub releases; all updates go directly to the main branch. The repository tracks a companion repository at github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/companies-to-apply, which appears to be an earlier version of the same list based on the links in the README badges section. The README count of 482 companies is marked with a comment instructing contributors to update it after adding entries. ## Conclusion moreThanFAANGM is a useful starting point for software engineers who want a pre-compiled list of product-based companies and startups with career page links in one place. The list does not validate that individual job postings are current, and some links may become stale as companies change their career sites. The value is in having 482 companies that are already categorized as product-based, which removes the research step of distinguishing product companies from service-based ones. Verify each career page link is current before investing time in an application. ## FAQ ### Which companies are considered FAANG+? The term FAANG+ typically extends the original acronym (Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) to include Microsoft, giving FAANGM, and sometimes further expands to include Uber, Twitter, Lyft, Stripe, and similar companies. This repository focuses on product-based companies beyond that short list, covering 482 firms across sectors and geographies. ### Which companies pay better than FAANG? The repository does not include salary data. Its value is as a curated list of product-based companies and startups, organized alphabetically with career page links. Compensation comparisons require checking sources such as individual company offers or publicly shared salary data. ### Which companies are considered FAANGs in India? The repository includes major US tech firms with operations in India such as Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, alongside India-headquartered product companies and startups such as Acko, Ajio, and Atlassian's India offices. The list covers both global firms hiring in India and India-focused product companies. ## Sources - [Issues](https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM/issues) - [Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM on GitHub](https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM) - [License: MIT](https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM/blob/main/LICENSE) - [Project website](https://kaustubh-natuskar.github.io/moreThanFAANGM/) - [README](https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/moreThanFAANGM/blob/main/README.md) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/kaustubh-natuskar-morethanfaangm