Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview

Post by enraged_camel » Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #77

linkregister wrote: post #60

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I agree he's way ahead of the game; being an engineer at Google would be a step back unless: 1. He gets placed as a staff engineer or director. 2. He gets a new shiny project that for some reason he has reasonable autonomy over. Otherwise he'll get tired of the big-company politics. I can't imagine why a self-starter like this would want a set of bosses. He's already at the next level, building his own companies (lik…

Interesting how you consider "building his own companies" to be the next level. Maybe indeed this is a commonly held HN view. I've always thought doing a start-up (or working for a medium sized company) is what you do early on, in order to gain the skills needed and prep for the end goal: Working for one of the top prestigious companies. Look at all the start-ups that are evidently founded for the sole purpose of bei…

Post by linkregister » Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 7:21 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #77

linkregister wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree he's way ahead of the game; being an engineer at Google would be a step back unless: 1. He gets placed as a staff engineer or director. 2. He gets a new shiny project that for some reason he has reasonable autonomy over. Otherwise he'll get tired of the big-company politics. I can't imagine why a self-starter like this would want a set of bosses. He's already at the next level, building his own companies (lik…

Interesting how you consider "building his own companies" to be the next level. Maybe indeed this is a commonly held HN view. I've always thought doing a start-up (or working for a medium sized company) is what you do early on, in order to gain the skills needed and prep for the end goal: Working for one of the top prestigious companies. Look at all the start-ups that are evidently founded for the sole purpose of bei…

    Self-taught programmer/moderately-ranked state school ->
    Junior developer at unknown startup ->
    Intermediate/senior developer at that startup or another one ->
    Software Dev at Fancy Company ->
    Start company with colleagues OR high-paid, remote consulting gigs

Post by greenleafjacob » Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

xxpor wrote: post #73

dublinben wrote: post #70

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The median employee tenure at Google is only 1.1 years, so clearly lots of people are leaving. [0] They are right in line with much-derided Amazon. [0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno...

Or it just means they're hiring lots of people.

Post by Retric » Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 7:30 PM UTC

evanws wrote: post #86

dublinben wrote: post #70

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The median employee tenure at Google is only 1.1 years, so clearly lots of people are leaving. [0] They are right in line with much-derided Amazon. [0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno...

Median employee tenure is almost entirely dominated by things other than employees leaving. A company that is not hiring will not have any new employees and as a result have a really high median tenure. The question you really want to ask is: what's the percentage of people leaving each year?

Post by rgossiaux » Fri, Dec 16, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

evanws wrote: post #86

dublinben wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The median employee tenure at Google is only 1.1 years, so clearly lots of people are leaving. [0] They are right in line with much-derided Amazon. [0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno...

Median employee tenure is almost entirely dominated by things other than employees leaving. A company that is not hiring will not have any new employees and as a result have a really high median tenure. The question you really want to ask is: what's the percentage of people leaving each year?