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It certainly didn't happen that way for me. I'm doing exactly the kind of work that I love to do. You're afforded quite a bit of mobility inside the company.
by scotth 11y ago
It certainly didn't happen that way for me. I'm doing exactly the kind of work that I love to do. You're afforded quite a bit of mobility inside the company.
- rictic 11y agoThat also has been my experience. I've moved three times in five years and every time it's been because I heard about what a team was doing and wanted to join them.
- scotth 11y agoDude, we're both in 2HS! I'm in the "UI Box" (Material).
- raldi 11y agoOh hey, me too! Well, the first part, at least.
- LittleDan 11y agoHey, I was just going to mention how easy it was for me to move... to right next to your cube! (I'm in V8.)
- 72deluxe 11y agoIf you're in the UI box, can you enforce the apps that have a Hamburger menu to map the physical menu button on devices (like last year's Samsung that I use) to the menu please? The button does nothing - popping up the menu would be welcome and much appreciated in all of Google's apps.
- estel 11y agoDrifting away from the topic, but this would be a big change from the expected behaviour of opening the overflow action menu.
- 72deluxe 11y agoWhat do you think should happen instead?
- estel 11y agoThe standard behaviour for a while has been to open the action overflow (the "hidden" menu with three dots on the right hand side of the action bar) menu. This menu affordance was supposed to appear on devices that didn't have a hardware menu button.
- 72deluxe 11y agoAh ok thanks. In that case, it does nothing for some apps! eg. if I am in the Google+ Android app and press the hardware menu button, it does nothing. Calendar does nothing. Hangouts does nothing. If I am in Gmail, it pops up the menu (but at the bottom, and not where the hamburger is). Chrome pops the menu up. Maps opens the side bar. YouTube pops the menu up. Drive opens the menu. So it works for some but not for others. Perhaps you could enforce consistency or follow your own guidelines etc.? Go crack the whip.
- commentereleven 11y agoThe main devices that Google devs use - Nexus devices - do not have a menu button. And I guess they think that the three dot menu is ugly or something.
- 72deluxe 11y agoIt is automatically created in the action bar when the action area is too small for buttons: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
- rictic 11y agoCool! I've just joined the Polymer team. I'm off until the 21st, but drop by and say hi!
- mvnoogler 11y agoIs switching really that easy? I'm a new hire, and I've been given the choice of working on one of two teams, neither of which particularly align with my interests.
- cbhl 11y agoI suspect you won't hear as much from the ones that had a hard time switching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
- burkaman 11y agoI don't think that applies here at all. Why would people who had a hard time switching be any less visible? I would think they would be a lot more likely to talk about it, like how people are more likely to write a review of a product they hated than one they were content with.
- varelse 11y agoPick the team with the lowest attrition rate. The team to which I was assigned was losing someone every month and I was allocated as cannon fodder to stop the bleeding. It didn't end well.
- rictic 11y agoYes. If you want to switch teams, and the team that you're switching to wants you, then it's basically a done deal. Feel free to send me an email if you've got more questions.