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I think you're just in for a rude awakening if you expect the Google from 20 years ago. It's no longer a scrappy startup, it's closer to Microsoft at this point.
Outside of ads, and maybe LLM work, what projects are going on at Google that are interesting, to both the top brass and to line level engineers, that might lead people to feel differently? Google has been a rudderless ship cruising on ad dollars for years, with mid level managers launching one unimpressive product after another. Products that get canned by Google months later and only serve to benefit said managers…
I was working on Google Trust Services. My job was genuinely interesting. Bad upper management (immediate manager was absolutely 10/10) was the reason I ended up leaving.
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How do projects that get canned after a short time benefit the CVs of the managers who launched them? Serious question.
Up and out: launch something, get promoted, move onto the next team, what happens afterwards is the next guy's problem. And of course the next guy won't get promo for maintaining the last guy's thing, so he's incentivized to nuke it and build his own shiny thing. This can be observed in any large company though, not just Google.
Google does plenty of stuff well, but what's their last big exciting new product or even new feature? Bard is good but they're chasing OpenAI. Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung. Or YouTube Shorts and Tiktok. It all seems directionless or stagnant, like the bad old days of Microsoft.
Market share wise but not feature wise. Everyone is chasing them in regards to photo quality.
Google does plenty of stuff well, but what's their last big exciting new product or even new feature? Bard is good but they're chasing OpenAI. Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung. Or YouTube Shorts and Tiktok. It all seems directionless or stagnant, like the bad old days of Microsoft.
Google does plenty of stuff well, but what's their last big exciting new product or even new feature? Bard is good but they're chasing OpenAI. Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung. Or YouTube Shorts and Tiktok. It all seems directionless or stagnant, like the bad old days of Microsoft.
Do you mean, Google is one CEO change away from turning it around, like Microsoft did ?
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Agreed. They get paid $400k-$600k a year to do 10% work and slack off the rest of the time. Then started complaining when Google told they needed to start actually working.
> “I guess I will just hang around and do my job until Google no longer wants me,” she finished her post. Welcome to having a regular non-union job? There's several billion other people in the club. It's not exciting, and you will be let go whenever the company wants a boost in their financials. There's also no free snacks or chefs, but you (at Google) still get a bigger salary than anyone else in the world with your…
I probably wouldn't do it indefinitely but it can make sense to hang around for a while.