Why is it always a googler writing these articles? Okay, you got laid off, but it's news because the company was google?
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#872Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember a few years back when it seemed anyone who (1) had a pulse and (2) had rumors circulating that they might be a software developer got a contact from an AMZN recruiter about once a month if not sooner. It was frequent to have somebody complain on HN about how they could not get an interview with FAANG and I'd say "you really haven't gotten interviews with AMZN" and of course they were getting interviews wit…
I once wrote a reply email to an Amazon recruiter saying effectively, "If Amazon were the last software company left on earth, I would rather become a carpenter than work there. Please never ask me to interview there again." Anyhow a couple years later I got called by a recruiter from Amazon asking me if I'd be willing to relocate to work there.
Well the guy was technically in line - your conditional wasn’t satisfied.
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#873Earlier quoted context omitted.
80% of Americans are definitely not on what I'd consider a "good healthcare plan".
What is considered a "good healthcare plan"? Can you compare American insurance plans with Europe's ones? 92% of American had health insurance in 2023. Some people may have more than one insurance plans, thus the total number below is greater than 100%. Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 53.7 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar…
Dental coverage, for starters. It's surprising how many plans are extremely skimpy on this.
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#874Life goes on after your job, unless you make your job your life
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#875Similar thing happened to me, after almost 27 years, but my company was a great deal more respectful, in the way that they did it. I left on the best of terms; which is extremely rare, with layoffs. To this day, I still have a lot of respect for my old company. Also, the writing had been on the wall, for years. I was quite prepared. What I wasn't prepared for, however, was my post-layoff treatment by the modern tech…
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#876Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is bad at a lot of things but has a “we’re number one why try harder?” attitude. Or rather you can’t benchmark the performance of anyone there against industry peers because they are protected by a two-sided market. Bazel, Kubernetes and other startup killing tools are developed there because with monopoly services they can hire 3x the number of developers at 3x the rate of other firms and shackle them with to…
Funny how they're bad at this from start to end. Most of these comments talk about the "end" part, but don't forget: Google has a notoriously laggy hiring process with extreme delays and an unacceptably high level of silence on important issues from recruiters. I have been ghosted so heavily from recruiters TWICE at Google when I was literally telling them "Hey I have offers from $x and $y and I need to decide in 2 w…
Sometimes, good things are worth the wait. The two times that you accepted roles other than Google, did they turn out better than waiting for Google?
> after I decline, I get interviewed by some team at G that tries to figure out why people declined
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#877I didn’t see one mention of AI related feature or talk they were working on.. that’s the real reason. If you’re not wasting time peddling some AI feature that nobody will ever use or give a second look, you are not onboard the hype train.
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#878> But I was also immediately ripped away from my calendar, docs, code, and more. Layoffs are never easy. I've been through a few myself and it really takes the wind out of your sails. That being said, this sentence made me pause a bit. None of these things mentioned are actually yours. They are the property of Google. One thing that helped me immensely in my career is understanding that my relationship with a company…
I think their point was that they were told they could look for another internal role, but at the same time had their access revoked, which sends a very mixed message.
With the way it was written it wasn't clear to me whether the other role was offered as a replacement for the layoff or more of a good luck I'm sure you'll land on your feet. Agreed it's a mixed message if it was the former.
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#879> But I was also immediately ripped away from my calendar, docs, code, and more. Layoffs are never easy. I've been through a few myself and it really takes the wind out of your sails. That being said, this sentence made me pause a bit. None of these things mentioned are actually yours. They are the property of Google. One thing that helped me immensely in my career is understanding that my relationship with a company…
>I recommended learning how to separate your value from your employer. Not just that: separate it from your career . Ensure that you and others would still value yourself even if you weren't receiving top decile income for an easy job. A misanthropic software developer is begrudgingly useful; a plain misanthrope isn't even mediocre.
Good clarification. I know this separation is difficult especially when the career funds the other parts of life and the employer or title you hold is seen as prestigious.
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#880> But I was also immediately ripped away from my calendar, docs, code, and more. Layoffs are never easy. I've been through a few myself and it really takes the wind out of your sails. That being said, this sentence made me pause a bit. None of these things mentioned are actually yours. They are the property of Google. One thing that helped me immensely in my career is understanding that my relationship with a company…
"One thing that helped me immensely in my career is understanding that my relationship with a company is a business relationship" That is just a culture thing. Most prominently in the US. In many cultures there is no clear boundary between personal relationships and business relationships. And why would there be? I would like to live in a world where kindness, dependability, punctuality, warmness, openness and forgiv…
My comment is not meant to encourage removing kindness and humanity from the relationship. It's meant as a reminder that the other party in the relationship (the company) does not necessarily bring those values to the table.
I would also like to live in a world where humane values are reflected in personal and business relationships to the point where the line between personal and business relationships blurs.