ExGoogTA88

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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
What I mean was that I saw no middle - people working okay hours and enjoying themselves. You had motivated people producing good work with decent load but hating it, like me. Or people not caring and coasting doing little work - also like
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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
> Either you are trying to rank up or you're not trying to rank up. I've seen coasting people getting promoted, and hard working people not getting promoted. But you could be hard working and not stressed is my point. I know b
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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
I'd settle for at least feeling like my time on earth is not wasted and my talents are appreciated. I completely felt that in jobs before Google and I'm feeling it right now in my post-Google job at another FAANG (but it could be
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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
Probably. But I feel like there's something in Google's current culture that leads to this. I've mostly had these conversations with people from the search and cloud PAs. Could be different in other orgs. Maybe I just got ext
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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
For sure, that's the upside of working there. Every aspect of my life outside of career satisfaction improved considerably - I relocated to the US, was able to buy a house, my work life balance got a lot better compared to working at s
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by ExGoogTA88 4y ago
Recent Xoogler here. I've never met anyone who was actually happy at Google when you sat them down for an honest talk. Everyone was either coasting and depressed/disengaged, or overworked and stressed (I would say 80% were the for