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Google has 140,000 employees, the size of a size-able city in the U.S. Does anyone really care when someone leaves Google?
by bmitc 5y ago
Google has 140,000 employees, the size of a size-able city in the U.S. Does anyone really care when someone leaves Google?
- emodendroket 5y agoI guess people do in the "why would you ever leave such a great job?!" sense, but people can get bored of any job after enough time.
- ergocoder 5y agoOutsiders also don't grasp how high a lowly senior engineer earns. Compensation in tech is so insane. Other high earning occupation just doesn't even come close. It would take doctors years to earn 250k a year. In tech with stock growth + RSU, you might get that as a junior eng. I earned 450k as a junior per year with pre-ipo company. This is why engineers can just leave and others are surprised.
- kgwgk 5y agoTo many people the high pay makes it more surprising, not less.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMany people have the causation backwards. The high pay is because the engineers are able to leave the job.
- midasuni 5y agoGet a google job straight of of college and it seems you can retire very comfortably in your mid 30s
- emodendroket 5y agoSeems like the big problem with early retirement scenarios is if you get sick you're fucked. Maybe if you leave the country.
- UncleMeat 5y agoIt makes for flawless blogspam. There are enough people leaving Google that some of them will publish criticisms that align with the community's preconceived notions and will let them all feel superior to Googlers. Further, because Google is so big there will almost necessarily be pockets that really are truly bad to work in. Readers can therefore extrapolate and assume the entire company functions this way.
- dilyevsky 5y agoThere are entire companies built around OP’s and his teammates’ oss contributions - relatively small group of people. You can’t say that about 99.9% of others in that 140K