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Why would six years as an individual contributor be enough to make sweeping assertions about an entire company when two years is not? googthrowaway's experienc
by kevingadd 6y ago
Why would six years as an individual contributor be enough to make sweeping assertions about an entire company when two years is not?
googthrowaway's experience more closely matches my experience at Google, fwiw, but it's certainly the case that your experience depends on which org you're in. My org had a notoriously incompetent VP running things and it hemorrhaged staff to companies like Apple and Microsoft.
- amscanne 6y agoYou missed the point: I didn’t make any sweeping generalizations. I’m advocating against that. The only generalization I made is that the existing generalization about anti-engineering is hooey. And I don’t know why you’re assuming I’m an IC; I didn’t say that either. I don’t have any problems with people sharing their specific personal experience. I have a problem when people start claiming good engineers are “rare” — you’re just insinuating bad things about tens of thousands of people you have never even met.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoAs a meta comment I will say that the rhetoric you're using is representative of the kinds of rhetoric you see on the internal mailing lists in case anyone reading whose never worked at Google wants to get a taste of what that's like. It literally reminds me of being back at Google.
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