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Anyone inside Google care to anonymously comment how morale is over there these days? Why so many people jumping ship? Is it purely about money, or something el
by tlack 16y ago
Anyone inside Google care to anonymously comment how morale is over there these days? Why so many people jumping ship? Is it purely about money, or something else?
- Uhhrrr 16y agoI can't comment on Google goings-on, but sometimes jumping ship is simply explained by looking at stock option vesting dates. Google only had 6,000 employees at the beginning of 2006.
- hartror 16y agoIf I just had a 10% pay rise in this economic climate I'd be pretty darn happy right now . . how long it will last of course . . .
- dstein 16y agoBut remember, it's a 10% raise immediately after the company got caught with illegal no-poaching agreements with their competitors.
- yanw 16y agoI doubt HP and Adobe were poaching Google employees, the "clod-calling" agreement was most likely to everyone else's benefit, a Google employee would only leave for IPO money or to start their own thing.
- PakG1 16y agoWhy not? Especially HP, they're going heavy into the cloud infrastructure space. A lot of Google's scale expertise would probably come in handy. And Adobe being a software company... well, good software companies always want good programmers. Clearly, Google has those.
- nikcub 16y agoThe 10% pay rise was offset by a $17 drop in the stock. Most employees own stock, so they got an extra 10% taxed as income at the cost of lower stock value which is taxed as gains Something tells me Google didn't think it through
- omouse 16y agoMaybe the work conditions have gotten worse compared to pre-IPO Google?