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Guessing not a full time engineer or some kind of niche talent? Never heard of anyone going remote or even being a possibility. Its written into the culture and all job postings.
Netflix has a lot of remote employees. They also pay well above market rates. It's a good gig if you can get it.
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This is one of the scariest things about Google, and indicative of its public face, too. People in the US often compare the government to Big Brother in 1984 , but the government can't be Big Brother if people think that, as one of the most important qualities of Big Brother was that people actually loved him. The entire system rested on the idea that people believe in it out of love, not out of fear. Google seems to…
While I risk being pedantic, I question the notion that the people in 1984 "love" big brother with the usual denotation. I believe that "love" in context implies more of a unity of being / complete submission to rather than any sort of romance. A key point in the book is the control over truth effected through the control of knowledge and history. A government in a totalitarian state like North Korea effectively is,…
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When I interviewed with Google, the over-the-top "Google is the best place to work evaaar" attitudes I got from the majority of people I interacted with gave me the distinct impression that it was like some bizarre cult. Most of them were so green they likely hadn't had any other job, so were unlikely to be able to know how silly they appeared to me (having worked for several companies in very different fields).
What recruiter has ever said "This is just an ok place to work?" Every job I've had the people I've interacted with in recruiting/interviews have all been very positive about the company.
And as for the "recruiters", they didn't really try to sell Google at all. I think they assumed that the Google name was sufficient reason to want to work for them. (It isn't, or at least was not for me.)
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I even have a lab coat with a company logo on it. It was due to an advantageous loophole in the corporate dress code. About 2/3 of the software developers on my team did it. It was as much of an inside joke as the memorial stack of the useless, corporate-branded, brass-plated railway spikes that grew by one every time someone left the company. Every time the c-level poured out more Flavor-Aid, we checked the height o…
>Corporation Service Company First thought: "Is that name for real?"
At some point, they decided that intellectual property research and protection services were in their milieu, so they bought up the best team I have ever worked with, and summarily threw us all in the trash, because apparently all the value of the acquisition was in the code base rather than the personnel.
I would prepare a special place in Hell for the principals, if I could get there first.