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I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by PavlovsCat »

svachalek wrote: post #6
bgar wrote: post #4

What is up with websites placing giant images above articles? The main content is the text, and while the image is nice, I want to be able to read, not look at the picture.

I don't know about this particular case but A-B tests often lead to this sort of thing (large images seem to really pull people in). We are moving into a world where software evolves into a niche. It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.

It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.

It also gets happily stuck and dies in a local optimum, being the simplicistic algorithm it is. We are moving (further) into a world where people stand for nothing, have no thoughts worth mentioning, and would do anything for money no matter how and where from; maybe we don't need to understand that, but it's pretty hard to unsee once you did.

Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by rza »

scrabble wrote: post #8
[deleted] wrote: post #2

[deleted]

The article says this is what happens when she left Google. Not while she was there.

That's what I meant. Having Google on your resume opens up doors many doors when you leave - it would be hard NOT to find offers or connections once people know you're an ex-Googler. I don't imagine this to be the case if you leave a lesser known or respected company.

edit: oh, you were replying to a deleted comment

Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by harrytuttle »

minimax wrote: post #10
johansch wrote: post #3

I am kind of tired of reading stories of people who have left Google to launch fantastical enterprise X. And this particular story has been covered here before, I think.

You're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.

Antidote:

I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)

Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by ef4 »

Whenever somebody says "why would you quit such an awesome job?", they have it backwards.

The better the job, the easier it is to quit and take a risk on something new, because (1) you tend to have more savings and (2) you are demonstrably capable of get another good job if you need to.

Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by vidar »

harrytuttle wrote: post #13
minimax wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.

Antidote: I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)

Would love to hear that story...

Re: I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it

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Post by harrytuttle »

vidar wrote: post #15
harrytuttle wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Antidote: I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)

Would love to hear that story...

There's not much to it. I started an online "virtual helpdesk" company. The first company I got in signed a contract and promptly went bust after I'd spend all the incoming cash on marketing to get other companies in. It plummeted into debt and I folded it.

The sickening bit was to offset the debt, I sold the codebase to another company which did quite well out of it. They offered to hire me in but I couldn't face it.

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