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I wonder how Googlers who weren't selected as APMs feel about having to compete with these pre-designated golden boy and -girl elites? I also wonder whether ma
by dctoedt 14y ago
I wonder how Googlers who weren't selected as APMs feel about having to compete with these pre-designated golden boy and -girl elites?
I also wonder whether many APMs display any sense of clubby entitlement? Probably not many of them do, but in any group like that there are usually a few here and there.
- debacle 14y agoCliques and entitlement? At Google? Unspeakable.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOk, that one made me laugh.
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- bestes 14y agoDo we have any APM's here on HN that might be willing to comment?
- andrewmunn 14y agoAPMs are definitely a clique while they work for Google, but after they leave they are just a network of friends and contacts. I think this article is overplaying their loyalty to Marissa. Nobody I've ever met thought Yahoo would be a good place to work and I doubt that will change much in the near future.
- michaelochurch 14y agoI never had the impression that APM was anything "elite". It's a rank somewhere around the SWE-3 level of project management. I'm sure there are APMs who get great opportunities, just as there are SWE-2's and -3's that land on the best projects pretty randomly. If you want to be a PM, Google probably isn't the best place for you, just as you probably wouldn't work for a steel company to write software.