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Were they happy, or did they just appear so? Some places punish employees that don't act unnaturally friendly and happy.
How often do you see your driver directly? I see them frequently because I'm often outside.
They don't _look_ that miserable, but they also don't look like they get any breaks or free time. They're always on the verge of running.
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How often do you see your driver directly? I see them frequently because I'm often outside.
Once every couple weeks or so, I'm home a lot. They don't _look_ that miserable, but they also don't look like they get any breaks or free time. They're always on the verge of running.
It’s been eye opening to see Google, FAANG, et al to gradually be transformed from the “rebel” to basically the core of corporate America - with the corresponding structures and incentives they once said to have despised. Early on, they set out to keep the “startup” culture internally - to drive ongoing innovation. But it turns out that this requires a tremendous amount of both trust and capital to waste to do at sca…
Around 2015, there was a very noticeable shift in almost all media from liking tech companies to being super anti tech companies.
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Was it leaked as "poor performers" (absolute), or "lower performers" (relative)? Relative would imply they have good skills, but don't meet Google's extreme requirements.
Downvoted because I didn't put "extreme" in quotes? Or because Google is nowhere near being truly "hardcore"?
At Google, or any large company, there are plenty of people who for various reasons just aren’t good performers but don’t get cut. The requirements to stay on there are not “extreme”.