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What's so fascinating about this is that it provides a glimpse of the inner workings of the Google machine. Even Google with its second-to-none reputation, cool
by arkitaip 14y ago
What's so fascinating about this is that it provides a glimpse of the inner workings of the Google machine. Even Google with its second-to-none reputation, cool tech and HR practices ends up alienating this employee because of its bureaucracy. This in a company founded just fourteen years ago. On one hand it's comforting to know that even the best of the best lose an important aspect of their competitiveness and might be defeated, on the other hand it is troubling how all companies seem destined to lose their agility and flexibility. Not even Google with all their incredible resources and brilliant minds can solve this, it seems.
- greggman 14y agoIt sounds like you're reading an awful lot into one person's experience. Lots of people at google love their jobs, feel challenged and fulfilled, see all the oppertunities google provides from touching the lives of millions to open source projects to 20% time to access to every project at the company etc etc etc as an amazing blessing. Others have either bad experience, a bad attitude or maybe a little of both. I don't think one guy's opinion is really a reflection of most employee's experiences at google. I've been here 4 years. Haven't written one line of Java. Get paid to contribute to open source, have started 5 to 20 side projects, all open sourced. I could go into a lot more things but suffice it to say Google is by far the best place I've worked out of the 10 places I've worked so far.