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Googler here. If you work at a big tech company you can improve the products used by millions if not billions of people. I find that very rewarding.
by pptr 4y ago
Googler here.
If you work at a big tech company you can improve the products used by millions if not billions of people. I find that very rewarding.
- wombatpm 4y agoUntil google gives it the axe.
- x3n0ph3n3 4y agoI guess that's one way to delude yourself. I'm just here (different big tech company) to get the biggest paycheck for the least amount of harm I could inflict on the world.
- kajecounterhack 4y agoPeople can have feelings without being deluded; it's okay to feel motivated by how many users use the thing you made. You do you. That said, many googlers do _not_ end up impacting millions or billions of users. So GP is a lucky one. Google has a lot of people working on infra, internal tooling, and subfeatures within products that don't / are hard to connect to usage.
- pptr 4y agoYou can measure improvements. You don't have to guess. However, I understand that a lot of work can't easily be evaluated for user impact.
- alienthrowaway 4y agoThere's nothing quite like shipping (or breaking!) something that impacts billions (with a 'b') of people . It was unexpectedly exhilarating for me the first time I shipped.
- sawyna 4y agoAnother googler here. I don't enjoy the work at Google as much due to bureaucracy, pace of work and politics. I previously worked at a startup and there is a stark difference in the work culture and environment. I'm working with the exact same team as that at the startup (we got acquired by Google). The same people i enjoyed working with, I absolutely hate it now. Nothing ever gets done, even when it is possible to do so. Folks around here call it perf-farming.
- layer8 4y agoAs a user of those products, one gets the impression that the improvements are more focused on what is in Google’s interest rather than what is in the users’ interest, though.