Here's a sampling of some of the names tech firms have for their employees.
The tech industry is no stranger to corporate jargon and word salad.
Comedian John Mulaney , in his set on the closing night of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco earlier this month, skewered the industry for it, among other things.
"Some of the vaguest language ever devised has been used here in the last three days," he said. "The fact that there are 45,000 'trailblazers' here couldn't devalue the title anymore."
Fortunately some terms in the industry, specifically what its companies call their workers, are much more straightforward.
From Metamates to Amazonians, here are popular nicknames for employees at various tech companies:
Google
Google employees are simply called "Googlers," though new employees are sometimes referred to as "Nooglers."
One of the company's six core values is to think of "Meta, metamates, me."
"We are stewards of our company and our mission," the company's culture page says about this phrase. "We have a sense of responsibility for our collective success and to each other as teammates. It's about taking care of our company and each other."
Microsoft
Microsoft employees are sometimes referred to as "Microsofties" or simply "Softies."
The company in 2020 published a blog post about the "life of a Microsoftie."
"Maybe I would have advocated for a different employee nickname, but it's fine. That ship has sailed," Anthropic chief product officer Mike Krieger told The Verge earlier this month.
X (formerly Twitter)
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it X , employees called themselves "tweeps."
It's not clear if employees have taken to calling themselves a new nickname since Musk took over.
Nvidia
Employees at the AI chipmaker run by Jensen Huang are called "Nvidians."
But that's not the full story behind the name. Early on, founders Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem didn't yet have a name for the startup and, in the meantime, named files "NV" for "next version," Fortune previously reported.
Apple
Apple doesn't seem to have a popular nickname for corporate employees in the way some of its peers in the industry do, though it famously calls workers at Apple stores Geniuses .
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