I see many people from FANG mostly ICs wearing their badges while droping off their kids at school in the morning, while shopping in grocery stores and sometimes in parks even over the weekend. location Silicon Valley. Does it mean they want to impress others and show off ( tell others look we work for high tech companies)? is this a sign of success in their eyes? I work at Google and I worked at Apple for many years and actually don’t care! your thoughts!
So dumb. No one is impressed.
Uhhh that’s the most cringy play at status signaling if so.
Some just dont bother to hide them. For others it might be a flex thing
I'm hiding mine away 😂
But then again, you’re at Amazon lol. Not something you’d want to “show off”.
it's still an A, you know? 😂
I imagine many put their badge on in the morning and take it off when they get home. My morning ritual is to put the badge on before leaving so I know I haven't forgotten it.
I will forget it's on if I am doing something before/after work. If I remember, I will take it off and put it in my pocket.
It’s clipped to my pants. If I take it off I lose it. It goes from pant to pant and nowhere else.
Yep. My old coworker (tiny startup no prestige) would wear hers around. She’s not flexing or anything we don’t even have IDs it’s just to get into the building. She doesn’t care what people think, why hide it?
I live in a non tech area. Nobody would even be able to distinguish Google badge and Amazon badge.
When I was at FAANG I’d wear my badge outside of work: - if I forgot to take it off - if I didn’t have anywhere to put it and didn’t want to lose it I never thought about the “prestige” of being there. I thought about my stock vest and how miserable I was. Truth.
Sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy working at FANG
Just the one. I’m itching to get back!
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Weird flex but ok