>Waymonauts Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
Waymofos would be better.
Waymo’s Hiring Binge
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#12>Waymonauts Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
Or it's just convenient to have a shorthand for people working at a particular place, and as long as you're doing that, may as well have fun with it. The obvious "Waymoers" doesn't exactly work anyway.
"Waymo employee" is too hard to say?
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Or it's just convenient to have a shorthand for people working at a particular place, and as long as you're doing that, may as well have fun with it. The obvious "Waymoers" doesn't exactly work anyway.
"Waymo employee" is too hard to say?
not as fun to say. Doesn't roll off the tongue.
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#14>Waymonauts Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
Waymofos would be better.
Works for any startup with the -mo suffix too.
Since Waymo skipped on that demonym, big opportunity for Venmofos.
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Credit Karma also apparently calls its employees "Karmanauts". Heavy duty cringe.
also, noogler and n00b are some fun ones
Noogler is supposed to be silly/goofy, it's not cringe at all if it's self aware
Disclaimer: used to be a noogler. I'm not mad at all!!1!
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"Waymo employee" is too hard to say?
not as fun to say. Doesn't roll off the tongue.
This is your career, so do with it as you like. Nevertheless, understand that there are people who hate the pet titles that "fun" investors like to give to their employees. Enjoy it "Waimonauts", lol.
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not as fun to say. Doesn't roll off the tongue.
This is your career, so do with it as you like. Nevertheless, understand that there are people who hate the pet titles that "fun" investors like to give to their employees. Enjoy it "Waimonauts", lol.
It seems likely that the decision is made with that in mind to intentionally filter out people who would be put off by it.
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#18>Waymonauts Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
Who cares. People like to be a part of a team. I was a noogler for a little while. The little propeller cap is on a shelf a few feet behind me as i type this. I was in my 40's but it was the first time i was part of a tribe at work and it felt kind of good (despite being old and 'kind of weird' relative to the rest).
I quit before i graduated so i guess it wasn't that special, but i think it's overall a positive thing (if managed well).
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#19Instructive the degree to which good HR, recruiting, and operational onboarding can create giant moats for these larger tech cos.
Hiring 700 "mostly engineer" employees in a year!
I pride myself as an "operator" and have worked in businesses that have scaled quickly but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated / hard to find employee count in a year at that scale.
In an economy where excess labor of that quality is non-existent.
That's an average of almost 3 people a work day you need to recruit away from probably another high income role, getting them to show up, get devtools opened, build and manage security clearances, trying to integrate into the org, etc.
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This is your career, so do with it as you like. Nevertheless, understand that there are people who hate the pet titles that "fun" investors like to give to their employees. Enjoy it "Waimonauts", lol.
It seems likely that the decision is made with that in mind to intentionally filter out people who would be put off by it.
So it’s working?