Initial comp was great; refreshes are harder to get and you have no leverage
Very fragmented; too many product areas; lots of bureaucracy.
https://x.com/kassydillon/status/1780424513810812967 Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss's office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.
I had my Google interviews held last week and feedback was communicated to me. My all interviews went well but I received a negative feedback in one interview. The question was LC hard. I gave my interviewer the most optimal solution possible using DSU . I am pretty confident about the solution whi...Read more
https://youtu.be/RDdjA4yJy88 47:20 I happen to agree. Innovation probably stops, but cashflow magnifies. Definitely need to handle it more nicely than Mr. M did. With less crazy and hypocrisy.
Google keeps getting voted as the best company to work in Blind but I wonder how they take care of employees when it decides to kill a project (which is quite often). I hear they loathe long term investment in emerging tech (like VR) and end up killing them if it does not produce revenue in a couple...Read more
Google left its visa employees hanging at the mercy of market. Needless to say am one of them. This is the worst time to get laid off, and google chosen this time to dump its visa employee to market when there is already a huge supply of techies. Google broke my trust and all the passion I have gi...Read more
mostly just pass protos around, hangout at the food and laundry sites on campus, write like 10 lines of code a week, collect their sweet tc and spend most of their time on random non-work related shit like learning to fly or trim their dog’s toe nails? Fuck sign me up fam, Apple is killing me
Why is it that google employees simp for their company and defend them as if they’re part of a family? Do they not realize they’re employees? Do they see working at Google as some massive accomplishment and see working at the company as part of their self worth? It’s the tech equivalent of being a ...Read more
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/17/youtube-to-eliminate-100-employees-as-layoffs-at-google-continue/ Just read this -- can we help to form a list of teams / orgs that are impacted at google just for reference?
Gonna be starting in a couple weeks, but too impatient/curious to find out for myself. I’ve heard Google employees get 40% off Patagonia and GoPro. Any other cool discounts?
https://www.cnbctv18.com/education/google-likely-to-layoff-30000-employees-post-new-ai-innovation-18662731.htm
I keep hearing a lot about amazing work life balance from (almost all) google employees. The TC is amazing too. How on earth is it possible? I don’t think any other company in FAANG or any company can manage to give both good pay and good WLB. Any insights? #tech #google #wlb #tc
Just saw a guy post on LinkedIn: - 14 years at Google. Senior Manager in marketing technology and engineering - Computer engineering degree -MBA from NYU Got laid off. What is selection criteria for laying a guy like this off? I assumed a guy like this would be valuable to the business as he app...Read more
Do Google employees get free access to Google services like YouTube TV, Play Music etc?
"He said the company plans to build teams closer to users in key markets, including India and Brazil, and revealed that he’s shortening the amount of time that his reports have to complete certain projects in an effort to move faster. ... Google’s cloud business has also instructed employees to move...Read more
Confirmed layoffs will continue in official memo https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24042417/google-layoffs-2024-internal-employee-memo-sundar-pichai
Just saw an Internal report doc shared by a friend (I can’t reveal the source but I can confirm this is true) that revealed that 50% of Google employees were performing below average! This is when compared to all googlers. I knew Google had some dead weight but can you believe that half are below ...Read more
First of all, why-tf Project Nimbus ? And secondly, No heed on Palestine getting shrunk? Also arresting employees sets up a dangerous precedence in this economy. I feel this might even silence others in sharing opinions. 😢 Am I the only one who is feeling this way? TC : 🥜 #google #tech
Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance Google will consider office attendance records in performance reviews and send reminders to employees with frequent absences, becoming the latest company to urge a return to in-pe...Read more