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Google employees confess everything they hated most about working at Google
- LeanderK 10y agoGoogle was never attractive to me, it just seems like an real-live walled garden combined with an digital walled garden.
- applecrazy 10y agoTo be honest, around 7-10 of these are either redundant or completely irrelevant. For example, look at #28 and #30. Why would anyone be complaining that mediocrity isn't accepted at Google? In fact, from a hiring perspective, that should be heralded as a great thing. This article is clearly clickbait.
- gumby 10y agoSome of those are humblebrags but plenty are well known problems of being a googler. At thanksgiving our east-coast host was dumfounded that anybody might not want to work at Google. I mentioned when they had given every person at the company a raise to keep them from leaving and he remembered that, and said he couldn't understand why they did it. Those of us in the Valley really do forget what life is like outside (both what is great here and what is better elsewhere).
- sounds 10y agoDirect link to the quora thread which is the source: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-negatives-in-working-in-a-too-good-to-be-true-offices-like-Google?share=1&redirected_qid=1080239 https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-negatives-in-working-in-a...
- io-io 10y agoSounds like Google needs an across the board 20% RIF. Then take the savings and provide the stockholders a nice dividend.