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- My story of Google workplace benefits transforming my life I decided I should share my story, don’t think we fully appreciate what we have. Me, 4 years ago: diagnosed with pre-diabetes, “borderline obese”. Life at my lowest - 2 kids, wife diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. Working at Google. See an announcement - new program, commuter e-bikes progra
- Is Google next Amazon for a toxic workplace? It scares me to see how many people are moving from Amazon/AWS to Google.. the only hope for non-toxic workplace was Google but if it hires more Amazonians.. Google will become next toxic Amazon. Any thoughts? Any tactics Google uses to make sure it doesn’t poison the company/org. Question for Goo
- link Dozens of Women Are Considering Suing Google Over Workplace Sexism https://www.glamour.com/story/women-considering-google-lawsuit-workplace-sexism
- The Media (wrongly) favors Microsoft workplace over Apple, Amazon, Google, etc. I've noticed the media always puts out stories about how the work conditions regarding the remote work policies amongst return to office are not clear or a contradiction to how they responded previously. However they seem to never talk about Microsoft, which pretty much has the same exact policies.
- Considering to leave Google Cloud after 7 years to join Facebook workplace for a Global partnerships role. Thoughts? Considering to leave Google after 7 years to go build partnerships at Facebook workplace? Would that be a good career move?
- link Is Google really that bad? I recently read this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rx5rp9/working_at_google_made_me_suicidal/ From the description of the post his workplace seems like a nightmare. What are your thoughts? Did you have a similar bad experience working in Google? #google #sre #swe #wor
- Anyone from Google REWS here? Curious on culture and comp ranges and overall morale. #google #workplace #facilities #realestate #rews
- vote Are you happy with your workplace / work situation ( Yes/ No ) #tech #finance #Fintech #work #happiness #burnout #tc #workplace #workplaceproblems #meta #google #uber #fortune500 #jpmorgan #jpmorganchase #morganstanley #jefferies #goldman #nvidia #salesforce #microsoft
- link Amazon listed as number 1 place to work. Google number 2 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-companies-2021-50-best-workplaces-grow-your-career-us- So, it's finally settled! 😊 #Amazon #Google
- vote "Which FAANG is best to work for? We Figured It Out" From the TeamBlind blog on workplace insights: 1. Netflix 2. Facebook 3. Apple 4. Google 5. Amazon
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529965 Today's gender equality 😆 Today i lost my faith in google as a company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529965 #thisalwayshappens #officelife #workplace
- link What do you guys think about this list of best WLB, Cluture, Perks, and Pay https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/03/29/10-companies-with-the-best-workplace-cultures.html 1. Microsoft 2. IBM 3. Google 4. HubSpot 5. Elsevier 6. Chegg 7. Concentrix 8. RingCentral 9. Experian 10. Estee Lauder Companies
- vote Amazon ranked as best employer by linkedin Google is #2 :) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-companies-2021-50-best-workplaces-grow-your-career-us-/?published=t
- Gym at Google San Diego office? Recently got an offer from Google @ SD. Anyone knows the SD office has on-site gym? Couldn't find that online... #sandiego #officelife #workplace
- Stock refreshers ay googl How are stock refreshers at google. How many years stocks are given and whats the vesting period. #workplace #salarycomparison #officelife
- link Samy Bengio leaving Google. What's going on ? Hey Googlers, What's going on (within the AI ethics team) ? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/06/googles-samy-bengio-is-leaving-amid-fallout-from-ai-researcher-firing.html Seems like high profile researchers are leaving Google a lot lately. #google #workplace #culture
- Google office in Playa Vista Los Angeles What biz/ divisions are in Google office in Playa Vista Los Angeles (so called Silicon Beach)? #culture #officelife #workplace #playavista #playa #losangeles #siliconbeach
- vote Sexual Harassment in ECommerce? The google walkout got me curious: how many of you have witnessed harassment at the workplace? Feel free to leave comments about what you saw or experienced!
- link google may be in legal trouble if it doesn't fire the manifesto author https://medium.com/@scurphey/googles-response-to-employee-s-anti-diversity-manifesto-ignores-workplace-discrimination-law-97c7c729cf86 the guy is so screwed. that pesky civil rights act butting into free speech. lol
- Levels at Google Is there a way to determine a level at google? Looking at a construction management position within Real Estate Workplace Services and they’re asking for 15yrs experience as well as 10yrs as a people manager. #hiring #jobopening #recruiting #google #construction TC 500
- Do employees of US companies in China use English or Mandarin at work? US based companies like Amazon, Microsoft Google, FB, etc.. all have offices in China. Is there a rule that all work including meetings must be done in English? #culture #officelife #workplace
- What are the most underrated companies in terms of perks? When it comes to benefits and perks, the usual companies are top of mind (eg. Google, FB, etc). What are the companies that indeed have great perks but not many people know about? And what are they? Asking specifically for companies that have an office in Singapore but general answers are welcome a
- Google UX Culture and WLB? Got an offer from Google but currently at Salesforce UX. I assume it’s team by team but Google benefits seem kind of crappy if you aren’t on-site. Very limited vacation days? Heard it’s pretty toxic re: wlb, time off, downtime… lots of busy work and BS. Thoughts? #culture #workplace
- vote Company kool aid Are many people at your workplace is drinking the kook aid? Sometimes it seems I’m the only one not agreeing with the overly positive and happy cult like attitude everyone has about the company.#Facebook #google #apple #airbnb
- Can folks see who’s viewed their Google Calendar details? Working at a startup now which uses Google Calendar. Everyone’s calendars are completely open. New to this, but can someone find out if I’m ‘stalking’ a colleagues calendar (I know that Google Docs, Sheets and Slides has view history) #officelife #culture #workplace #workfromhome
- What is wlb at Apple like for new grad SWEs I heard among big tech, Amazon is the worst followed by spacex and Tesla. On the other hand linkedin, Google, and Microsoft are pretty chill. I heard Apple sucks for hardware engineers but what is it like for SWEs?#culture #officelife #workplace #faang #amazon #microsoft #apple #wlb #google
- Top companies are unreachable, feeling bad about myself I am not being treated well at my current workplace, toxic environment, poorest TC and they kept me in a team who doesn’t have any work. Last year I started job search and applied to many companies. Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce, Adobe. Except Google no one has shortlisted my resume. I w
- Is everyone at Google smart? I heard a lot of comments like "You're at Google. You must be smart." I met a lot of talented coworkers at my workplace, but also many incompetent people who somehow passed the interview. Is it not true for Google? Are all your coworkers super smart? I'm not trolling and genuinely curious.
- link Blind has become a HR's nemesis https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/22/the-anonymous-job-review-site-that-has-hr-departments-on-notice.html Instead of thinking Blind as a nemesis, if I was in HR, I would use blind to know the pulse of the employees better and make it a better place! Or the least give a try The platform initially caught
- H1 transfer & resigning My H1B transfer status changed to "Case Was Approved And My Decision Was Emailed" on USCIS portal. Is it safe to resign at my current workplace or do I need to get the physical I-797A copy to resign ? I have asked the same query to lawyers but have not heard anything from them in past couple days.
- Getting back to Google Hi! I switched from Google to Amazon as a PgM 21 months ago. I'm not feeling at Amazon at all. I don't feel passionate about my work, my team is okay but a lot of politics and my workload has become operations heavy. I was a top performer in my Org at Google and have got exceeds expectations multipl
- I love Google Just an appreciation post for Google. I joined Google from a smaller company last year and I couldn’t really understand why people loved working at Google so much. After being here for a year and few months, I can see why. You really get to work with super smart people. You really feel like the com
- SWE at trading firm? How does quality of life compare as a SWE somewhere like Hudson River Trading vs Google? Pay, perks, workplace culture, etc? I like the idea of working on something like HFT, both for the money and for the technical challenge. I assume it's mostly the same kind of work as a Google serving system, bu
- Google - Reston, VA Virginia Office Just wondering what the Google Reston, VA Office is like. I am team matching and since offices are closed, would really like to see the place before I agree to anything. I know it is a smaller hub but just interested in feedback. Food, massage, fitness, parking, etc. #officelife #workplace #cultur
- Are there any engineer-driven companies over PM-driven companies? I understand we are not in the internet boom era or there is no bell labs. But every org head today is a PM and not an engineer. Seems like SWEs are just fodder in the management chain - atleast in my workplace. Are there any eng-driven companies still operating today or all orgs pm driven? #googl
- link Google Enabling Sexual Harrassment Just read below NY Times article, so disappointing to see Google be an enabler of sexual harassment to us women by continuing to feed male centric attitudes in the workplace and not leading with action such as not paying big exit lump sums of cash to these a-holes. FU Andy and everyone else who has
- Noogler choosing between Austin, Houston, Dallas Are the amenities in the Dallas and the Houston offices, are they comparable at ALL to the Austin campus? I've been saving for a home and can definitely afford an actually nice place in either city. Austin is so unimpressive, expensive, and crusty that the only reason I'd live there is the experienc
- Which Workplace Software Suites are Used at Apple? Just signed an offer with Apple, wondering what workplace suites are used at Apple? I assume the obvious Apple productivity suite applies but do employees ever use Google Drive? Microsoft OneDrive? What about IM? Is it all iMessage, or do employees use Slack or something else? Then video chat, is
- Moving Microsoft -> Google. What package should I expect? If I were to move from a Principal PM role at Microsoft in Redmond to a level 6 or 7 at #Google in Mountain View, what should I expect in salary range, signing bonus, and annual cash/stock bonus? Also, for those who've done it, how is the difference in workplace culture?
- Google non-tech L6/7 TC I’ve been considered for a non-tech role at Google in the Real Estate and Workplace Services team at Sunnyvale. Recruiter indicated they are flexible between L6/7 depending on performance at the loop round. Can anyone share insights on what to expect in terms of TC and their differences between L6 a
- How can we better encourage and champion diversity in tech? I’d like to introduce myself - I’m Sage Randall, a marketing executive, a partner with Hire Women Week and Lady Bird Talent, and an advocate for Diversity in the workplace. One of the Keynotes we are developing for Hire Women Week is focusing on diversity in the workplace, what we are calling “When
- threading in slack in slack threads are not the way of life, most times people send messages linearly leading to interleaved conversations.. teams, Google chat even fb workplace seem to do it right by organizing things are conversations and threads. if you type in the big box it's a new post/conversation/thread. anyo
- Google's Great Managers Awards So the thing is Google has its Great Managers Awards. AFAIK, for nominating people for this award they use a feedback survey which incorporates 10 behaviors that makes managers effective at workplace. Once the nomination part is done. Then, how do they go about choosing the managers who needs to b
- Changing mind after declining an offer Say I got offers from Google and Facebook; declined because I decided to stay at my current workplace but changed my mind N months later. 1. Do I get blocked from joining any of those companies? 2. Will I have to go through another interview? 3. If no, how much time do I have to change my mind, be
- Google Cloud Culture Hello fellow blinders, I work at Google cloud. I have been there for a number of years and have witnessed a change in culture. Things have taken a negative turn as the business tries to be as cut-throat as it possibly can be to show results. Workplace harassment and insult has become largely accept
- How to trash ex-manager and ex-company anonymously ? (nothing to do with Google, I joined Google last week) I was laid off from a healthy startup very recently. I was laid off with no reasoning. They just showed me the door over a zoom call. My layoff happened due to an Indian dude who carried extremely high ego and his likeliness towards his blindfo
- Uplevel From Google? So when I last posted I had an L4 offer from Google. They were on the fence on promotion and my manager was looking to put me on a "fast track" for promotion (whatever that meant lol). Now, I get a call from the recruiter that they have up-leveled me to L5 Still feels like a solid offer and probab
- How to Succeed at Work? I want to become a high performer. Whenever I join a new company, I’m usually very focused during first few months but eventually lose focus/interest. I have active offers from two of the FAANGs and will be joining one of them in April/May. This will be my 4th job with 3YoE. I was pipped twice in my
- Data Engineering Manager Referral Hi Everyone, I’m working at a series A start up company. The company had laid off the entire offshore team without prior notice. I don’t feel confident about continuing here, lack of job security. I’m looking for a referral. I’ve 11+ years of experience in Engineering, especially data and integrat
- link Happiest Employees In Tech Sometimes you get individual posts on quality of life or happiness from companies, and often it gets treated as a generalization or prevalent characterization. It's important to remember wlb and experience differs by team org etc everywhere. You can see that based on the aggregate survey below: h