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Google has longer tenure. The thing you seem to miss are the other common denominator. Huge amount of money and unreasonably far into the future expectations
by di4na 3y ago
Google has longer tenure.
The thing you seem to miss are the other common denominator.
Huge amount of money and unreasonably far into the future expectations of returns.
Means there is no short to medium term pressure to optimise for efficiency or returns, which means one of the fundamental element of good engineering environment is missing.
These companies build in a vacuum of limitations in term of cost and a vacuum in term of goals.
- John23832 3y agoThe average tenure at Google has been widely reported for while now as roughly one year. https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/19/whats-the-average-tenure-of-an-engineer-at-a-big-tech-company-ep-434/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/19/whats-the-average-tenu...
- nielsole 3y agos/average/median/g according to the linked source(cnbc)
- John23832 3y agoWhen you have an average that low (or far away from the median) you by definition have a extremely large number of 1 year or lower tenures. The floor is 0. You can't have a negative tenure at a company.
- nielsole 3y agoWhat I meant to point out is that Stackoverflow quotes the source CNBC wrong (primary source linked to by CNBC is no longer available). It is the median that is that low. The average might be higher or lower than that number.
- testbf 3y agoThat explains why working for Google seems so common. Hmm interesting, that explains a lot about why former Google developers are shit employees.
- ren_engineer 3y agobecause they were in a massive hiring spree at that time, if you hire 10s of thousands of people in a single year it's going to drive down your average tenure