It just goes to show you the latent "value" of having a FAANG position on your resume. People are always looking for shortcuts to making value judgments about people/ideas, and this is another one of those shortcuts.

I'm going to just start putting that on all my PR. Ex-Googler. No one is going to check, and if it biases the opinions of idiots... so be it...

I'm an Ex-Googler, I used to use Google but now I use duckduckgo :)

The sooner you're exposed as a fraud the better. So please definitely use it :)

The reality is that unless you're well known - no one cares if you lie about this stuff.

Please go ahead and do it.

Have a few of these on LinkedIn. "Ex Google Engineer" as a title for more than two years,while trying to bootstrap his own niche product/platform.

When I read "ex googler", my first thought was that so many people have gone through Google by now that it's no longer a big distinction.