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by ARandomerDude 621 days ago
I'm sure some companies use easter eggs as marketing/recruiting tools.

That said, I've put a small number of user-facing easter eggs in publicly-traded MegaCorp code before. In every case, it was an inside joke among devs that the higher-ups never knew about it. The C-Suite is uptight and we definitely would have been reprimanded if they were aware.