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This is what I gleaned from the article: Person 1: * Pay/benefits Person 2: * Benefits Person 3: * Hiring process Person 4: * Company felt too big. * P
by shawnps 11y ago
This is what I gleaned from the article:
Person 1:
* Pay/benefits
Person 2:
* Benefits
Person 3:
* Hiring process
Person 4:
* Company felt too big.
* Pay
* Company goals were too constrained
Person 5:
* Hiring process
* Benefits
Person 6:
* Hiring process
Person 7:
* Pay (international office)
Person 8:
* Cannot figure out why this person left, but it was after 11 days of working there.
Person 9:
* Pursuing different career path (overall was happy with Google)
Person 10:
* Hiring process
Person 11:
* Management
Person 12:
* Bad work/life balance
* Pay (other people paid less than what they deserved)
* Management
* Hard to get noticed in remote office
Person 13:
* Company was changing too much
* Management
Person 14:
* Hiring process
* Management
* Hard to get promotion
* Bad work/life balance
Person 15:
* Hiring process
Person 16:
* N/A
Person 17:
* Salary/hiring bonus/relocation
* Office benefits being removed
Person 18:
* Felt underutilized
* Management
Person 19:
* Management
* Lack of fun culture in remote office
- tjradcliffe 11y agoExcellent. Thank you for taking the time to pull some data out of the anecdotes. There are all kinds of tricky issues with this, as this is a small dataset, but by identifying categories you've created a template that could be used to further actual research.
- nagaiah 11y agoThanks for TL;DR
- randunel 11y agoI often go straight to comments for TL;DRs such as this one. Thanks.
- ak39 11y agoI wonder whether there's a "business" in there somewhere for creating a "TL;DR as a service" API?
- nowprovision 11y agoI think you're on to something here. Id pay the same I pay for lwn for someone to collapse articles into under say 1k or 2k characters, very rarely more meat exists..
- Schwolop 11y agoToo slow - Summly purported to do this, and Yahoo! already overpaid for them...
- perlgeek 11y agoWhy is the hiring process such a big issue for people already working there? Do they feel it reflects badly on them? Or that the quality of new co-workers is bad? Or lack of new co-workers?
- hiou 11y agoI think it's because it sets a poor first impression or creates inaccurate expectations. It may cause a feeling of letdown once you get in the door and see what you will actually be doing. Once, I had a position where the interview process had me thinking I was going to be doing much more exciting things than I actually did. The strange thing about it was that if I had realized that I was going to be doing that work beforehand I might have been okay with it. Instead the letdown tainted my experience there from day one and I never really got on track and left soon after. I wonder if that is what is going on here.
- rb2k_ 11y agoMaybe they made a referral of a person they knew would be great, but they didn't make it through the interview process. After that happens once or twice, it could be somewhat demotivating.
- ozim 11y agoI think if you put 3 months or longer for job that you leave after 11 months, you can feel that your return on investment is not something you imagined. I would be disappointed if I would put lots of effort to get job that is not "dream job" I thought it will be. That is what people do I imagine, jump lots of hops to get there but then it is normal job you can get somewhere else without making all that effort.