Straight to the point, coming from the startup world and I joined Google last year (L4). It was my dream company, I Interviewed multiple times across 7 years and I finally made it. First quarter was very chaotic, a lot to learn about google (not necessarily about the job or my role) so I focused on learning the corporate language, the culture, erase my personal identity and be assimilated by the faceless entity that is google. Second quarter I was feeling more confident, I improved on communication, still lack a lot of context but I managed to perform 80% of the time independently with some help with my mentor and achieved all my okrs, the work is extremely boring. I’m an engineer but I feel more like an analyst, reading and writing endless documents that nobody will care, work feels artificial, like we invented stuff to be busy all the time and leadership always have a justification on how is all connected but I have this feeling that my work here is meaningless and nothing matters. Third quarter just started and I’m already burned out, it’s so emotionally and mentally draining to pretend I like my job and my manager is noticing it, I can’t keep with the lie anymore. Just waking up and getting into the car to drive to the office feels like an impossible task. My partner suggested me to start interviewing so I can switch jobs right after the 1 year mark so I started looking at positions, then I realized! I don’t feel like I can pass any interview (based on job description) at this point, I feel like I became stupid in the last, almost, year i have been working here, it feels definitely like a setback in my career, also I’m very rusty in coding now since the only thing I had done is running queries and writing google docs that I probably will fail all the interviews. Is there any hope for me? TC 350k #cybersecurity #interview #security
Passionate people have left to create their own companies or join some energetic startups.
Leetcode! And seriously consider taking a break from work. Realign yourself. Decided what you want out of life. Live frugally. And gtfo out of the bay.
Two paths: 1. Consider switching teams internally. I've seen it make a massive difference. 2. Leetcode and system design primer. Remember that you've already cracked the google interview before. This is rehearsal, not learning from scratch. You got this!
Internal mobility makes a huge difference. A friend literally left the Stadia Canada team a week before the layoff and was able to keep her job. A colleague joined Stadia Canada from Firebase half a year before the layoff and got axed.
Can someone explain, on what bases other teams onboard another team member? How is it if visa is involved?
Can I have a referral before you leave?
I reached out to a bunch of folks searching for jobs at google. Someone who is at google said, they too committed career suicide joining there. They have been there for a year and a half but they feel extremely incompetent to interview. One last piece of advice they gave was- join google only if you know you are going to retire from there. I recently myself left a well paying job because of lack of human respect in terms of work life balance, lack of accountability, false information when hiring a person. I was there for just a month and I was drained and burnt out. I didn’t feel like a human anymore. Took a week off and started job search again. I hope you do what is right for your mental health. These one year mark etc are meaningless if they make you feel less like a human and more like an entity. All the best.
The old Google is long dead. If you're joining Google in this day and age the main thing I would suggest taking away from it is learn from Google SWE/SRE practices and developer tooling. It's still light years ahead of industry. But if you're not interested in SWE practices or dev tools, the prestige of working at Google, or just being able to coast, then yeah there's probably not much there for you. Innovation is pretty dead at Google and everything is super slow. IMO the only team worth working for at Google is probably the Golang team if you love Go. But it's really hard to get into.
It's not ahead of anything. When I worked at Google, we had 3 people to do 1 person's job. That was many years ago. So things mostly just work because there's very little to do on ops.
So tired of seeing posts like this by people complaining about their solid-paying jobs while tens of thousands of us are out here having been laid off, unemployed, struggling, and applying for 100s of jobs each week for months with nothing to show for it. If you don't like your job, quit so someone else can have it. Otherwise, stop complaining.
You must be new here at Blind
I can tell you are new in the industry because it doesn’t work like that all, there’s plenty of open positions, maybe you just haven’t clear the interviews/have luck yet. Me quitting my job at Google doesn’t mean you will automatically get a job.
Yes, Leetcode is your savior at this point
> I’m an engineer but I feel more like an analyst, reading and writing endless documents that nobody will care, work feels artificial, like we invented stuff to be busy all the time It's the same with Meta.
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Does google have any internal mobility program? Maybe switch teams before you get ready to leave?