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Thanks for the great overview, I really appreciate it. I guess it's all about finding a good company that values its employees. Maybe I'll drop a line to friend

• michaelochurch 14y ago
  Google is worth a shot but don't get your hopes up and don't take it personally if you get shat on. Google has a lot of great engineers, and if you get a good manager for your first project and get to a launch in your first 2 years, you become a Real Googler and it's awesome. If you don't establish credibility early on, you're fucked. It's impossible to transfer to a good project without already having had a good project, so your first manager determines your career. On the whole, I think Google is in decline and it has an absolutely shitty management structure (probe about "calibration scores") but there is still some genuinely interesting work and there are some great engineers so, by all means, give it a try. However, there's probably a 60% chance that you'll land on a dogshit project with no career advancement and have to job-hop yet again in a few months. Make it 85% if you're outside of MTV. But if you don't mind taking that risk, then try it out. Google's upside (stable pay and great projects) when you actually land well is too high to write it off.