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> You're being downvoted, and I have no idea why. Because calling people's job choices "embarrassing", no matter how right you may be, isn't a good starting ar

> You're being downvoted, and I have no idea why. Because calling people's job choices "embarrassing", no matter how right you may be, isn't a good starting argument against the people in those jobs. Not to mention that it comes off as pretentious.

ohgodplsno 4y ago
No, Google upper management is a bunch of incompetent clowns, and they should rightly be called out for it. Working at Google today, you better be in just for the 200k salary, because your options there are to sell ads or work on a product that's going to be shut down in a week.
- encryptluks2 4y ago
  What major projects get shut down in the same week and what ads do you think they are selling?
cbozeman 4y ago
Cole, do you know what working at Google is fast becoming like? It's like going to Harvard. You don't want to advertise that you went to Harvard. People who attended Harvard not only admit this, they don't even actively proclaim they went to Harvard any longer. Why is that? Because a bunch of really shitty people have sullied the reputation. It isn't that way with Google for the general public, but the SV folks know that Google of 2022 is nothing like Google of 2012, and certainly nothing like Google of 2002. My great fear is that it won't be much longer before saying you work at Google in say, 2025-2032 is like saying you work at Hewlett-Packard or IBM in 2022. The prestige is long gone.
- zen_1 4y ago
  Where would you say the prestige is now?
  - maerF0x0 4y ago
    stanford
    - jes5199 4y ago
      I have worked with a lot of Stanford grads and only some of them were competent programmers
      - maerF0x0 4y ago
        I worked with a startup company once that seemed to bias towards stanford / berkeley grads. I was surprised how good some of them were, easily ahead of me with 5 yrs experience from a mediocre Canadian university and work experience in Canada. I've noticed people adapt to the demands placed on them, so highly encourage people to at least start out in a very demanding environment.

ohgodplsno 4y ago

No, Google upper management is a bunch of incompetent clowns, and they should rightly be called out for it. Working at Google today, you better be in just for the 200k salary, because your options there are to sell ads or work on a product that's going to be shut down in a week.

encryptluks2 4y ago
What major projects get shut down in the same week and what ads do you think they are selling?

cbozeman 4y ago

Cole, do you know what working at Google is fast becoming like? It's like going to Harvard. You don't want to advertise that you went to Harvard. People who attended Harvard not only admit this, they don't even actively proclaim they went to Harvard any longer. Why is that? Because a bunch of really shitty people have sullied the reputation. It isn't that way with Google for the general public, but the SV folks know that Google of 2022 is nothing like Google of 2012, and certainly nothing like Google of 2002. My great fear is that it won't be much longer before saying you work at Google in say, 2025-2032 is like saying you work at Hewlett-Packard or IBM in 2022. The prestige is long gone.

zen_1 4y ago
Where would you say the prestige is now?
- maerF0x0 4y ago
  stanford
  - jes5199 4y ago
    I have worked with a lot of Stanford grads and only some of them were competent programmers
    - maerF0x0 4y ago
      I worked with a startup company once that seemed to bias towards stanford / berkeley grads. I was surprised how good some of them were, easily ahead of me with 5 yrs experience from a mediocre Canadian university and work experience in Canada. I've noticed people adapt to the demands placed on them, so highly encourage people to at least start out in a very demanding environment.