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A person wrote their experience on their damn website, and you in your infinite wisdom chose to come here and then poop on it?
Get a grip.
Lots maybe. But if it's under 8 figures before the dot, it's not tons.
There is nothing all that special about Google. Maybe there was twenty years ago, but that ship has long since sailed. It’s just another large US tech company. Like Microsoft and IBM before it.
Working at the modern Google seems so overrated. Wonder what it was like in early 2000s when Larry and Sergei were not C-level douches
> Tons of money Lots maybe. But if it's under 8 figures before the dot, it's not tons.
I recently left a job at a very different large company with a similar timeframe (a little under ten years). Pretty much everything this author states is related to my experience. There is nothing all that special about Google. Maybe there was twenty years ago, but that ship has long since sailed. It’s just another large US tech company. Like Microsoft and IBM before it.
This is just a hyperbolic statement that should not be taken seriously at all.
Look, Google isn't some fantasy land that some people might have lauded it as once upon a time, and it isn't unique in terms of pay or talent, but it is certainly at the top echelon.
I did an interview loop for high level IC at both Azure and GCP simultaneously and the different in talent level (as well as pay) was astounding.
IBM has never a company where engineers could rise to the same ranks as directors and higher with a solid IC track.
Is Google special compared to Apple/Netflix/Meta? No. Is it special compared to Microsoft, IBM, and any non FAANG or a company that isn't a top deca-corn? Yes.
Light on details and mostly seems to revolve around money.
> It’s a shallow post-mortem
I respectfully disagree. It’s an 8 minute read. Sure, it’s mostly in dot-point form, but personally I’d rather that than some massive 80,000 word blog post that I’m going to drop 1/8 of the way through.
Since when does a personal blog post need to be a well constructed and lengthy document?