Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit • Hacker News Board

Re: Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

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Post by Latteland » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

TallGuyShort wrote: post #34

adamnemecek wrote: post #22

> Everyone wants to work at Google This circle jerk needs to stop.

Their recruiters genuinely think this, which is why I decline. They have no interest in finding a good match between you and the company or why you're not interested in one specific detail. They have an opening, and you are privileged to even be contacted about the position.

You don't want to work there because they think everyone wants to work there? That seems silly. It's pretty common for all recruiters in the universe to not have the new employees best interests at heart - they mostly want to find people who can get hired.

Re: Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

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Post by ukyrgf » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

cjhopman wrote: post #45

brantonb wrote: post #35

>Interviews One of the people featured is a friend and former coworker at a different company. When I sent him this link, he said they never talked to him. They just pulled info off of his blog.

"Interviews" doesn't actually appear in the text of the article or its title. What does appear in the text is a very clear description of where the information came from. "We spoke to several former Googlers to find out why they left the company, compiling their responses with those of other former employees who have written about their departures publicly." I'm am, once again, quite impressed by hn's top comments.

I left my tab open long enough to still have the original title: "Interviews with former Google employees to find out why they decided to leave (businessinsider.com)"

Re: Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

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Post by taneq » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 11:25 AM UTC

ma2rten wrote: post #33

taneq wrote: post #11

These responses seem kind of formulaic and bland. I don't know why but I expected something juicier - these are mostly just people realising they need to move on, for the same reasons most of us do.

I think they interviewed a biased sample: ex-googlers who want to promote themselves.

Are there other kinds?

(I mean, how many skilled, driven, ambitious people don't want to promote themselves?)

Re: Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

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Post by kelukelugames » Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:53 AM UTC

monaghanboy wrote: post #17

kelukelugames wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a company with 10s of thousands of people. What did you expect?

>I expected something juicier What does the quantity of employees have to do with the discussion?

It's a big company. Big company things happen at big companies.