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Well, Google is a large enterprise, and in my experience most people that primarily worked at enterprises have problems adapting to working for startups, for th

• gumby 4y ago
  I don’t think it’s unique to google either except from the standpoint that they have cultivated a reputation for genius and that causes cargo-culting into places where they can’t succeed. I remember my gf working for a company of about 500 ppl (so not a startup) who, shortly after she joined brought in a new CEO, an ex googler. In fact it had been the only place he’d worked. When I met him it was clear he 1 - was quite smart and 2 - had no idea how the company worked or why ppl bought its product. And 16 months later, he was gone, along with the ppl he’d brought into the exec team, and the company was losing even more money. But by that point my gf was long gone.