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> I have consistently gotten good ratings since joining and have been promoted twice so its not like I have been coasting either. I read everywhere that for pr
by avinassh 5y ago
> I have consistently gotten good ratings since joining and have been promoted twice so its not like I have been coasting either.
I read everywhere that for promotions at Google, you need to keep making new products. How true is that? And how do you deal with it?
- thethethethe 5y agoNeeding to make new products to get promoted is a bit of an exaggeration. The people who need to launch new products to get promoted are generally are directors or maybe L7s, which is a small minority of Googlers. For the majority of people, it's more that you need to "launch" something, which could mean many different things depending on what part of the company you are in. For example, if you are SRE, a promo project could be designing and implement a new set of SLOs that better represent service state and work better in a demonstrable manner. If you are a SWE on an infra team, it could be adding a feature that solves some problems that internal customers are facing that nobody outside Google will ever see.