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This seems like a pretty silly question, and the answers reinforce that. Getting fired by Google is like getting fired anywhere else. One of the commenters me
by fredkbloggs 11y ago
This seems like a pretty silly question, and the answers reinforce that. Getting fired by Google is like getting fired anywhere else. One of the commenters mentioned that it's harder to explain a short term at Google to prospective employers, but realistically anyone is going to understand that sometimes a particular job or team just doesn't work out regardless of the company's reputation.
So really this seems like asking what it's like to be kicked in the face by Linus Torvalds. Sure, he's famous, but it feels pretty much the same as being kicked in the face by anyone else.
- hga 11y agoOne of the commenters mentioned that it's harder to explain a short term at Google to prospective employers, but realistically anyone is going to understand that sometimes a particular job or team just doesn't work out regardless of the company's reputation. Any employer who doesn't understand that closed allocation will not infrequently result in this is probably to be avoided. Worst story I remember as related on HN, but my search fu is not able to find it, was a hardware engineer who was also good at programming and Python. He was put on a team writing Python hardware testing code, and because he found out, as is related by many others (and at many other companies) that the policy of immediate transfers is often fictional, he had to quit to avoid ending his career.