I've worked in the corporate world for decades across multiple different sectors and I've never seen anything like one. I'm in the UK though - maybe it's different where you are.
I find it hard to believe that the UK corporate world is so different that they don’t have mandatory trainings with fancy certificates presented to you at the end.
Oh that, yeah I've seen pointless certificates given out for doing crappy mandatory training courses.
Although, the only place I've seen them is in a company whose HQ is in the US. So maybe that is more of a US thing too.
To be honest, I never saw them as a participation reward. Everyone hates doing the damn things in the first place, nobody cares about getting the certificate.
That's only if you're at a place that wants to make it look like they care. Most of the places I've familiar with really don't even put forth that level of effort.
I wouldn't judge any JS framework like SvelteKit or Next.js on its lacking in the backend. They have a server to handle frontend problems, not solve your backend problems.
My setup requires multiple monitors. Having at least 2 monitors then a laptop on the side. Turn all notification sound off and make sure the slack red dot stays on laptop screen, on the edge of your peripherals.
While focusing on work it will be harder to notice the red dot but won't be turned off.
Music helps when it's hard to focus, I prefer some genre of instrumentals.
This is key for me. Not just the sound (since I keep the audio muted across the board anyway), but turning all notifications off entirely and keeping them that way. I mean all notifications, not just comms-related ones. Then you can use little dots to see if someone needs you in a comms and periodically check things manually when you're in a spot where that's not disruptive.
The closest accurate Hollywood portrayal IMO would be the series "The Pacific". As far as shouting something similar to "sir yes sir" that typically can be found from boots(folks who havent deployed yet).
This has been my experience as well. I've been happy with nestjs but haven't found an ORM that fully did what I expected. MikroORM seems to lead the way though (I know it isn't the most popular). My main issues with MikroORM could of very well been self inflicted and I ended up writing my own SQL.
I see folks get "participation trophies" all the time, they come in different forms.