Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

Post by qeqeqeqe » Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 6:32 AM UTC

notagogloid wrote: post #196

qeqeqeqe wrote: post #190

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Not every employee that is hired is really top tier, there are probably some average people that get through. Also people can get lax and complicit.

Also googlers are sometimes useless outside the Plex. Because of their tendency to religiously reproduce processes that they know so well. And tendency of these processes not to work outside.

Post by optimiz3 » Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 6:41 AM UTC

webdva wrote: post #161

Google Inc. is cutting jobs? Is this actually a move by automation’s machinic desire to displace human laborers or human capital? Pieter Levels, an expert in startups, said that “Netflix wants to have less employees, but each one now paid higher. For example, they'll pay one million dollars per year for one engineer instead of paying $300,000 per year for three engineers each.” This is actually making me anxious to t…

Post by rtpg » Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 6:50 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #191

webdva wrote: post #161

Google Inc. is cutting jobs? Is this actually a move by automation’s machinic desire to displace human laborers or human capital? Pieter Levels, an expert in startups, said that “Netflix wants to have less employees, but each one now paid higher. For example, they'll pay one million dollars per year for one engineer instead of paying $300,000 per year for three engineers each.” This is actually making me anxious to t…

I don’t see anything technically wrong with that approach. The top performers are usually outsized contributors compared to the bottom tier or even mid level coworkers. It’s better to keep a very high performing team even if it’s more expensive.

Post by ALittleLight » Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #195

kortilla wrote: post #156

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> Google's tech staffers are supposed to be some of the top people in the world That ended about 7 years ago when Google decided to expand as rapidly as possible. Alphabet employees over 100k people now. It’s just a younger IBM at this point. There will be thousands of people that will suck and should be laid off rather than kept.

I think you still need to be at the very top of your field to get past that famous interview. It’s completely out of reach for all but the most elite engineers even if they’re already doing brilliantly somewhere else.

Post by random314 » Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC

ericd wrote: post #139

WoahNoun wrote: post #134

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Entirely dependent on the team and hiring manager. And the technical requirements of the role you want to move into versus your prior role. If you want to move from working on gmail to working on the android kernel, I imagine there's gonna be some whiteboarding. (Not that gmail is simple software, but just picked two examples that came to mind with different domain expertise).

Sounds reasonable. I was referring more to the gatekeeping type, like a heavy focus on things like balancing trees and recursion for roles that clearly involve neither trees nor recursion.