How has the author not been fired from Google for such snark? Their Github shows them still employed at the company. Props to this person.
He quit this week, hence them now being public.
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#192https://goomics.net/17/ > Size of the pool of candidates for a position at Google Yea, no. It's kind of funny that the image of the world is centered at North America. That's how I feel about Google (and a lot of other big tech) hiring practices. I'm not saying you can't work for Google from the UK, Germany, India, or other places, but it gets a lot harder.
Isn’t this true of most companies?
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#193"Don't focus too much on promotion" - A Billionaire Google Exec https://goomics.net/228/
Counterpoint: At a top company like Google, full of some of the most talented people in the world, there simply won't be enough promotions to go around. And yet, an "average" performer who is happy to build, scale, maintain, and not re-launch a new chat product every 5 years should be rewarded and encouraged to stay and not leave to a competitor. How do you do it? You have to create intrinsic motivation. Twist: You c…
> Counterpoint: At a top company like Google, full of some of the most talented people in the world, there simply won't be enough promotions to go around.
I don't know anything about google specifically, but generally it's not the size or the talent level of a company, but the growth rate. If you want to be promoted, the most important question is whether or not the company is growing. Else the only way to go up is if someone else leaves.
High turnover can also accomplish this effect but is limited to a very small number of industries.
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#194https://goomics.net/348/
This one is fantastic. Seems a little strange that they're wearing an apple shirt when google does the same thing though and its a google comic that seems generally self-scathing.
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#195https://goomics.net/17/ > Size of the pool of candidates for a position at Google Yea, no. It's kind of funny that the image of the world is centered at North America. That's how I feel about Google (and a lot of other big tech) hiring practices. I'm not saying you can't work for Google from the UK, Germany, India, or other places, but it gets a lot harder.
Isn’t this true of most companies?
I don't know to be honest. Realistically speaking, the bigger the company the easier it should be to hire elsewhere.
Google has legal representation pretty much everywhere in the world, yet when I see engineering positions, they are mostly "anywhere in the US".
For example, I feel like Oracle, IBM, or Accenture will be happy to hire you in a country like Slovenia, while companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are more likely to force you to relocate to a place where they've got a large office.
All of the above is my subjective perspective of course, I haven't worked for Google, MS, nor Apple.
I'd love to know which big tech companies are happy to hire a remote-only engineer and let them work from their own country.
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#196For all the comments here, i thought the criticism in these comics would be a lot more biting.
Probably the funniest part is the revelation that this is what passes for "scathing critique" from the "jester" in the "googler" bubble.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
McD SF is paying you $35k[0]. For 2018 figures: «A $35,000 income in the United States has enough buying power to put you in the 82nd percentile globally for per-person income. Within the United States, your income falls around the 20th percentile.»[1] 0: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Mcdonalds-Crew-Salary-... 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...
Your source is paywalled, but it's in line with my intuition. It doesn't state the global percentile in absolute money, does it?
It’s pulling data from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/global_...
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every google product exists to encourage people to see more ads, even if he product isn't showing the ads. I encourage anyone to point to a google product that isn't either selling ads or trying to get people to spend more time on the internet so google can sell them more ads.
Drive/Docs/Meet. Cloud. Nest. These are a few examples of (though far from the only) products completely orthogonal to ads.
Drive/docs absolutely contributes to google selling ads since it brings you to their home site.
I'll give you cloud and nest though.
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#199https://goomics.net/329/ This one has a lot of meme opportunity. Imagine a third pane ("Oracle" or something) with guns pointed both inward and outward!
Related: https://goomics.net/62/ (probably his best-known one).
Wow, that was his? I had no idea. Saw it way back, never knew it was a Google comic.
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#200Looks like Dilbert is now working for a real company...
And there are 30 thousands of him.