We see complaints and know shitty things about working at Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle...... But I have never seen a thread about bad things at Google. Is it because Google is perfect, or because Google is well known to be the best place to work and people don’t speak up about bad things?
This is why Amazon folks need to be oncall during weekends.
If I post it during weekdays, someone must be saying that’s why Amazon folks need to be oncall during weekdays. There’s always someone tries hard to prove that he/she is clever and has a sense of humor.
Yeah, but you work at Amazon, so we already know you’re not clever.
I've always wondered why folks at Google don't complain about just 15 days of vacation first few years. It seems unacceptably low? 15 days is barely enough for family commitments of taking thanksgiving week off (3 days), and a week around christmas (6-7 days). Then all you're left with is what, one more week off in the summer (5 days) and that's it?
When I was at Google no one "counted" their PTO - you just took time off and no one cared if your shit was done. My manager even told me not to count mine. "I've been in the red for PTO years, no one cares"
This seems to be the case at a lot of mid to large size companies. We’re all adults - no one really cares as long as you’re getting work done and not leaving at inopportune times consistently
The only negative experiences I’ve had were with bad managers but those are found in any company so not special to google, and for the most part people are awesome to work with
A few months ago, a jar of chocolate in one of the micro kitchens was briefly empty. It filled up again later, but for a moment I wanted chocolate and didn’t have any.
Beautiful
Wow, you should try SFO. Those MKs are constantly empty.
Bullshit qualification of 1Billion rev potential to explore new product areas. Customer hostile eng teams. Arrogance of being the best in the world.
Best infrastructure teams. Get to learn a lot. But coz of the scale, they move at a very slow pace.
Too many extremely talented or 10+/20+ YoE more experienced engineers at the same level or just 1 level above, making promo difficult.
Pretty bad people managers. Google doesn’t care about people management so a lot of people are frustrated with the calibration and promo process. That plus the execs who are turning increasingly evil.
I've only had excellent managers
@shadoww some managers are good despite the system, not because of it.
1. Filled with a lot of entitled millennials. They complain about everything, from free food to Xmas gift. They think their high TC entitles them to a say in company decisions and demand to be consulted in such matters (maven). They think their POV represents all employees when in fact they are only a small minority. I wish to God that we ship them all to a third world country so they really experience what the real world is like. 2. Promotion process is broken. Over engineered process and extremely high overhead. It's definitely a shit show if you want a promotion, even if your manager supports you. 3. Money wasting. Google burns to much money on off-sites. Multiple days trips to Tahoe, Hawaii, Vegas, etc is not necessary and costs a shit load of money, sometimes millions.
Go home Ruth!
I am at home.
Bullshit promo process and incredibly slow and boring pace of things are the main things mentioned. But overall it’s pretty good, depends on your priorities
What’s wrong with the promo process?
There are quotas.