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Taking a high-level employee which may turn out not to be a good fit is a huge risk for any manager. So unless your specialization is a good fit and on top of t
by vl 5y ago
Taking a high-level employee which may turn out not to be a good fit is a huge risk for any manager. So unless your specialization is a good fit and on top of that you have stellar feedback (or they just can’t find any people at all) they are very reluctant to agree to your transfer. Naturally this limits options for high-level employees (L6+) at any given work site.
Effectively highest-level employees at Google don’t have a choice to what to work on at all. I.e. top-level directors are told what projects to lead.
- ghaff 5y agoYep. The issue is that high-level employee may be a big net positive for the company in the abstract, but they may simultaneously be burning a few hundred $K hole in your group's budget without really producing much in furtherance of what you're being measured on. In an ideal world, this all gets settled out somewhere up the line but of course we're not in an ideal world.