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I interviewed at one of Qualcomm's satellite locations, and when you walk into the receptionist's desk area, the walls are totally covered in golden plaques. Fl
by Workaccount2 4y ago
I interviewed at one of Qualcomm's satellite locations, and when you walk into the receptionist's desk area, the walls are totally covered in golden plaques. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Each golden plaque is one of their patents.
I almost fell over myself when I realized it.
- trothamel 4y agoWhen I went to IBM to give a talk, back in grad school, there was a wall like that. The caption was "One Year of Patents".
- giobox 4y agoThis is sadly not all that unusual at US technology businesses, you will see it at far smaller firms too. Even Tesla had a patent wall in their lobby until their famous "we don't do patents" post. I've seen the same thing at multiple shitty enterprise software firms as well. Some businesses even demonstrate their spurious number of patents issued annually as some kind of metric for innovation - always a bad sign. I've also been on the receiving end of the annual "we want to pump the patent count metric" email, when company wide email just blasts for suggestions of anything whatsoever we could patent to up a pointless integer. > https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you