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I've heard that a new employee can expect his or her first project to last about 12-18 months - can you confirm or deny this?
by brown9-2 16y ago
I've heard that a new employee can expect his or her first project to last about 12-18 months - can you confirm or deny this?
- nostrademons 16y agoIt depends a lot on what your particular project is, but 3-6 months seems much more typical to me. Mine lasted exactly 4 months from the day I joined to the day we launched...I was joining an already-existing project that was fairly far along, though. It often takes 12-18 months before you have a good enough understanding of the company and your own desires to figure out where you want to be. (And often more - I know people who joined in 2007 who are just now working through this.) But that time isn't all spent on one project: typically you'll work through a bunch of them, all in the same focus area. I think this is more akin to the normal process of discovery that most young people go through, though, and not something specific to Google.