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The good news is that it is only this weird stuff that makes the news. My experience at Google has been that the vast majority of it is just a workplace. Same s
by UncleMeat 5y ago
The good news is that it is only this weird stuff that makes the news. My experience at Google has been that the vast majority of it is just a workplace. Same stuff from middle management. Same cycles of performance review. Same desks. There isn't any large amount of wackiness on a day to day basis. People are grumpy and complain about Google products internally all the time. I don't observe a forced smile or kool-aid.
The pay is good. You can take advantage of facilities and benefits if you want, but many people don't.
- zestyping 5y agoI worked there from 2008 to 2015. The trajectory of the word "Googley" was telling; it went from an occasional tongue-in-cheek reference, to an everyday word used literally and unironically to describe anything that was good or desirable (in the subjective opinion of the speaker, of course). Toward the end of my time at Google, most uses of the word turned me off, and in particular the lack of self-awareness around how it was used was a pretty appalling kool-aid indicator.
- UncleMeat 5y agoThere are all sorts of weird words. I'm currently fuming about the fact that "double-click" has apparently entered PM-speak. My experience has been that although "Googley" does get used frequently and it is indeed a stupid word it basically just means "kind" or "helpful" and I don't read it as some sort of kool-aid that implies that people working at Google are meaningfully different than people working elsewhere. This is, of course, just my personal experience.
- musicale 5y agoJust make sure they don't write it on a whiteboard where the cl can look like a d, which changes the meaning.