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Personally I wasn't a fan of the article because it used an attention grabbing title which had nothing to do with the article. I get it, she decided that there
by mbell 13y ago
Personally I wasn't a fan of the article because it used an attention grabbing title which had nothing to do with the article. I get it, she decided that there was an alternative path to self fulfilment, more power to her. This could have been a great read if set in the correct context, but what on earth does this article have to do with Google?
- primigenus 13y agoWhat are you talking about? The article explains why she left Google, the company she was working for, to do something else. It's pretty accurate as titles go.
- mbell 13y agoWithin the context of the article, it's pretty clear that it could have been _any_ company of size, and she would have had the same response. When you title something 'Why I left Google' but your actually point has nothing to do with Google (or any large well known brand) the most reasonable term is 'Link Bait'.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoThe point about Google in particular is that it regularly tops the lists of big companies to work at when it comes to people in our field: workplace perks, project choices, flexibility, quality of engineers, and probably more reasons that have been gone over ad nauseam. There is a lot of status associated with being a Googler, and she talks a bit about that.
- drhayes9 13y agoI disagree. Not every company is Google -- both internally, as an employee, and externally, in people's minds. If your thought process goes, "I am a software engineer; I want to be the best software engineer I can be; Google does the best software engineering on the planet; QED," then it intensely matters that her story involved Google. Spoken from experience.