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Why is this impressive in 2014? This seems normal to me and I never worked for a company like Google.
by opendais 12y ago
Why is this impressive in 2014? This seems normal to me and I never worked for a company like Google.
- existencebox 12y agoAs an employee at another one of your generic bigCOs who at one time was a googler, it is very difficult to get e.g. another monitor in a reasonable size, or new hardware on short notice or without manager buy-in. You typically have to "steal one" from another employee who is moving/leaving. The process at G was a breath of fresh air.
- johnward 12y agoYep as soon as someone announces they are leaving the vultures come in. We are actually not even "approved" to have an external monitor based on my title.
- imrehg 12y agoI work at a tech company, and we get absolutely nothing but hand-me-down desktops, EOL operating system, encrypted & MAC blocked network so nothing else can connect, and filtered Internet. If you really need something for your work to be done, better buy it yourself from your own pocket. And it's the usual thing around here in other companies too.
- grecy 12y agoI'm at a telco, same story. Up until a few months ago I was running XP on a machine with 1GB of ram.
- johnward 12y agoI tried to order a mouse once. The only choice was a $10 el cheapo. I put in a request for it. Denied because I didn't spend enough. So I added a keyboard and a couple other things to meet the minimum spend. Denied again. I've had to resort to buying office supplies for myself because the company is so cheap. I have to support my 5+ year old company owned macbook (replaced failed hard drive and upgraded ram out of my pocket) or else forfeit it for a crappy windows box.
- enneff 12y agoWell I didn't join Google in 2014. ;)
- opendais 12y agoI've never had this problem at any company I've worked at as a w-2. I just don't get why people join these companies I suppose.