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It’s arrogance *ingrained in the culture. I guess that’s what happens when you tell people that they’re special, constantly, while at work.
by rejectedandsad 5y ago
It’s arrogance *ingrained in the culture. I guess that’s what happens when you tell people that they’re special, constantly, while at work.
- amsheehan 5y agoI don't think I'm breaking any NDAs by saying that that is just entirely not what happens.
- nickff 5y ago>" I don't think I'm breaking any NDAs by saying that that is just entirely not what happens. " Could you please rephrase this? I don't understand that sentence.
- prepend 5y agoThanks I was wondering too. I think it means “it happens partially” but that can’t be right as it doesn’t seem noteworthy. Although glad that GP isn’t breaking NDAs with that fortune teller statement.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoMy guess is that it was just a way to rebut the accusation by bragging about working there. I’m not sure that it worked though.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y agoBingo. This is it. Every Google employee thinks they are hot shit even when they get nothing done.
- nebula8804 5y agoI wish I was a Google employee getting paid tons of money to get nothing done. Being Bighead is the American Dream. [1]:https://youtu.be/ZpL-ZBNiGjE?t=203 https://youtu.be/ZpL-ZBNiGjE?t=203
- georgeburdell 5y agoTo be fair this is what happens when you hire entirely from the technical Ivy League. No one wants to do the last 10% that's really the last 80% of the work because it doesn't carry the same visibility. For what it's worth, Google, or at least some subsegment, does seem to be trying to fix this issue. I had a somewhat offensive conversation with a recruiter recently where they told me they're looking for people (like me) with non-standard backgrounds who don't necessarily have the pedigree that the usual Google SWE hire has. I hope they also extend this thinking to moms with young children. I know a good many technical women who fell off the career ladder after having children and were never seem to be able to get a chance to get back on, ultimately taking jobs far beneath their abilities or just shifting industries altogether.
- ethbr0 5y agoApparently the "P" in your middle name stands for "non-standard Pedigree"?
- analyst74 5y agoI think their elite school preference is only for new grads, the experienced pipeline has always been open to people with less pedigree.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoThey’ll give interviews to most and downplay the difficulty of the interviews on social forums in order to keep the accept rate low. You have to be an intellectual elite in order to pass the interviews either way.
- mrRandomGuy 5y agoLook no further than when Google decided to deprecate `alert()` on Chrome. Bunch of clowns with their heads so far up their asses they're inside out.
- lima 5y agoTo be fair, deprecating that is a good idea. They botched the execution.