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"And that told me everything I needed to know about how Google really thought about things vs what they said they thought about things." What you describe does
by tgsovlerkhgsel 10mo ago
"And that told me everything I needed to know about how Google really thought about things vs what they said they thought about things."
What you describe doesn't really provide much signal about this, because a big corp will always have a huge interest in having uniform working contracts. Exceptions are possible but only worth the headache with them for fairly high level employees. So even for a clause that they really wouldn't care much about, you'd expect a similar reaction.
- franktankbank 10mo agoNormalization of deviancy via law.
- saagarjha 10mo agoIf only there was a way for a uniform working contract that employees could collectively choose. Oh wait, no, companies don’t like that either.
- like_any_other 10mo ago> a big corp will always have a huge interest in having uniform working contracts Then what they choose for that uniform tells us a lot.
- malikolivier 10mo agoI encountered a similar situation in my career. The work looked good, the team looked good, money was good. Then when the work contract came up, there were some unusual clauses about my salary that I was not comfortable with. They first said that it was OK to ignore the clause as they would pay my salary as explained orally. I insisted that they write the work contract as they plan to pay me. After about 1 week of back and forth, they admitted that the clause was indeed unusual, was there for historical reasons and that they plan to change it in the future. However, they said no clause in the contract could be changed as of now, as it was the same contract for every employee, and no past had employee ever complained about it. Unfortunately, I ended up declining the offer, as I considered the risk was not worth it.