> Perhaps even more so Wasn't my experience. Of course, YMMV. > since you don't have clearly defined process of goals that lead to promotions and pay raises.

> Perhaps even more so Wasn't my experience. Of course, YMMV. > since you don't have clearly defined process of goals that lead to promotions and pay raises. Looks like Google does have defined process. Did it help the OP? Doesn't seem so. Defined processes are good if they're defined with your goals in mind. If they are defined explicitly to prevent you from reaching your goals, they'd be only an impediment, and one that you'll fail to overcome, as "this is our defined process, we know it doesn't work in your particular case, but we can't start special-casing people, so you'll have to take one for the team here".