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They're still part of it because they were there.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
Xoogler is a term. How many other companies have a term like that? They even have a website internally for people who leave and they call them “alums”. Nobody thinks I’m impressive or worthy of respect because of where I work, but people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world.
- tdeck 5y ago
  > people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world. Please explain specifically how I've done that if you've going to throw around accusations. You seem to be reading a lot into the fact that I worked at Google in the past, but I didn't design the hiring process, the data access rules, the cultural vocabulary, or any of the other things you seem aggrieved by. People at giant companies don't have influence over those things, and if you go through my comment history you'll see that I have mixed feelings about working there. If the mere mention that someone worked at a particular company gives you a feeling of inadequacy, I can certainly sympathize. But you need to realize that those feelings are coming from your own issues and not something I wrote in my comment. It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public.
  - rejectedandsad 5y ago
    > It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public. That's clearly the subtext here, and here [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28172705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28172705 Ya'll clearly think people like me aren't worthy of being "in the know" (and probably of living at all to be honest) for describing this particular doc. Openly flaunting your immense privilege is usually considered gauche, for the record.
    - xeromal 5y ago
      I don't think he flaunted it at all and I say that as someone who'll never make it into Google. lol
    - tdeck 5y ago
      > Ya'll clearly think people like me aren't worthy of being "in the know" (and probably of living at all to be honest) If this is your read on the situation, you have problems. First of all "y'all" is multiple different people on a website who don't know each other. You can't cite a comment by one person to support your claim that another person believes something, and "that's clearly the subtext" isn't clear to me from any comment in this thread. For the benefit of other readers, I'll just state it explicitly: this doc describes a TAR file that was shared with me when I worked at Google, that includes source code owned by the company that was never released. That's why the doc isn't public, it's not because I decided you "weren't worthy of being in the know" or of "living at all" - that interpretation is completely ridiculous. There are docs I've written at my current job that aren't public either, and that's not because I believe my colleagues constitute some kind of master race. The key takeaways for me were: - The UI looked like an old fashioned flip phone, as in the screenshot from that article - Everything was JS, as discussed elsewhere - The functionality wasn't particularly impressive to me, it had a half-finished calendar, contacts app, etc... And some graphical 2D demos What was most interesting was just poking around the screenshots and commit log which I obviously don't have.
      - rejectedandsad 5y ago
        > If this is your read on the situation, you have problems Obviously yes, I have a low IQ and don't make anywhere close to what you made 3 years into your career. > First of all "y'all" is multiple different people on a website who don't know each other. You can't cite a comment by one person to support your claim that another person believes something, and Yes, it's true society things of people like me are failures because I don't make $400k+ at Google or wherever you work now. Not just you, it's a bunch of people.

Xoogler is a term. How many other companies have a term like that? They even have a website internally for people who leave and they call them “alums”. Nobody thinks I’m impressive or worthy of respect because of where I work, but people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world.

tdeck 5y ago
> people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world. Please explain specifically how I've done that if you've going to throw around accusations. You seem to be reading a lot into the fact that I worked at Google in the past, but I didn't design the hiring process, the data access rules, the cultural vocabulary, or any of the other things you seem aggrieved by. People at giant companies don't have influence over those things, and if you go through my comment history you'll see that I have mixed feelings about working there. If the mere mention that someone worked at a particular company gives you a feeling of inadequacy, I can certainly sympathize. But you need to realize that those feelings are coming from your own issues and not something I wrote in my comment. It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  > It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public. That's clearly the subtext here, and here [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28172705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28172705 Ya'll clearly think people like me aren't worthy of being "in the know" (and probably of living at all to be honest) for describing this particular doc. Openly flaunting your immense privilege is usually considered gauche, for the record.
  - xeromal 5y ago
    I don't think he flaunted it at all and I say that as someone who'll never make it into Google. lol
  - tdeck 5y ago
    > Ya'll clearly think people like me aren't worthy of being "in the know" (and probably of living at all to be honest) If this is your read on the situation, you have problems. First of all "y'all" is multiple different people on a website who don't know each other. You can't cite a comment by one person to support your claim that another person believes something, and "that's clearly the subtext" isn't clear to me from any comment in this thread. For the benefit of other readers, I'll just state it explicitly: this doc describes a TAR file that was shared with me when I worked at Google, that includes source code owned by the company that was never released. That's why the doc isn't public, it's not because I decided you "weren't worthy of being in the know" or of "living at all" - that interpretation is completely ridiculous. There are docs I've written at my current job that aren't public either, and that's not because I believe my colleagues constitute some kind of master race. The key takeaways for me were: - The UI looked like an old fashioned flip phone, as in the screenshot from that article - Everything was JS, as discussed elsewhere - The functionality wasn't particularly impressive to me, it had a half-finished calendar, contacts app, etc... And some graphical 2D demos What was most interesting was just poking around the screenshots and commit log which I obviously don't have.
    - rejectedandsad 5y ago
      > If this is your read on the situation, you have problems Obviously yes, I have a low IQ and don't make anywhere close to what you made 3 years into your career. > First of all "y'all" is multiple different people on a website who don't know each other. You can't cite a comment by one person to support your claim that another person believes something, and Yes, it's true society things of people like me are failures because I don't make $400k+ at Google or wherever you work now. Not just you, it's a bunch of people.