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The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.
by causality0 6y ago
The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.
- godelski 6y agoMean or median? Those are two very different things and I suspect you mean mean.
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- m_a_g 6y agoWow, I am surprised. Any ideas why so short?
- throwaway3699 6y agoDoes that include contractors It's generally expected you spend six months just ramping up, so this number is really skeptical for me.
- mark_l_watson 6y agoI heard that contractors last, on average, a few months longer than employees.
- Arcuru 6y agoI'm fairly sure that these very low numbers for median tenure (not just for Google but the other tech companies as well) are a result of the huge percentage of new hires. That number does not mean that the average Google employee will only be at the company for 1.1 years. e.g. if nobody ever leaves the company, but you always double the number of employees every year by very aggressive hiring, the average tenure according to that metric is 1 year.
- sushid 6y agoIt's anecdotal but my understanding as someone who hasn't worked there is it seems like either people leave < 2 years or have no plans whatsoever of ever leaving.
- dmos62 6y agoPretty strange place where the average employee is perpetually a new-comer. At least that's the picture this painted for me.
- ineedasername 6y agoI don't think Google's hiring is increasing fast enough to explain the low rate. It looks like they increased about 10% from 2019 to 2020. However, it's also unclear exactly how 1.1 number is calculated. It looks like it comes from PayScale, which doesn't give, as far as I can tell, a methodology: Is that the median amount of time that all current employees have had with the company so far? Or is it the median of all of the employees that used to work there & moved on, which would exclude people that have continued to work there? Or is it some type of survival analysis that takes such factors into account?
- rawtxapp 6y agoLike someone pointed, majority of them are new employees. Most of my friends left around the 4 year mark when they hit the compensation cliff.
- tdeck 6y agoAt least in engineering that doesn't comport with my experience at all. I knew maybe a couple of people who left the company over 4 years. If anything people seem to stay much longer at Google.
- mathattack 6y agoThat’s tilted based on how much hiring they’re doing. A company that nobody leaves that hires 100% new employees has a median tenure of 1 year. Even if the growth is 50% per year, your median tenure will be less than a year and a half no matter how much your turnover will be.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoStandard deviation?
- godelski 6y agoThey said the median, which is the middle number. But I suspect they meant mean.