Every single company spouts sermons about how they're changing the world, making the world a better place, revolutionizing and disrupting the universe, reaching for the moon yada yada. Anyone with a little bit of experience in the corporate world knows that all of it is PR mumbo jumbo, corporate BS which even the executives laugh about while cringing hard. Heck, I was at a company where one of the promotional videos had employees wearing capes and walking around the city, as they were superheroes protecting the innocent from online threats. I knew it was all BS, but understood that this kind of mind numbing, almost satirical "propaganda" was necessary to get the interns and new grads to accept low-ball offers and stay longer even when we'd give them miniscule raises for multiple years, despite them being the lowest paid in the entire company. This propaganda helps keep the illusion of high "prestige" and gets people to accept low-ball, downlevel offers. This BS corporate speak is also forced into paid articles to keep the company image good in the eyes of the average Joes, who are unfamiliar with the fact that all of this is made up PR crap. There is no dream job, there is no dream company, if you believe so you need a reality check. Everyone's looking out for themselves, especially trillion dollar corporations. You're not special for cracking an interview, you just happen to possess skills which the industry needs at this time, to help them make more money. Everyone is replaceable, even the top-tier rated recently promoted engineer. Heck, even Ian Goodfellow was replaceable to Apple, why do you think you aren't? It's a ruthless world, the only way to survive is to constantly up skill, solve 2LC everyday and interview every 3-6 months at least, to keep in touch with what's trending in the industry and what the interview difficulty is like. Switch jobs/teams every 2-3 years early in your career otherwise your wages stagnate and you don't even beat inflation. I was safe from layoffs, but many of my friends were not, and I'm helping them out by doing mock interviews and guiding them with overall prep. TL,DR : Every company spouts BS about making the world a better place, if you believed that you fell for the marketing campaign. And given the reaction by Googlers to layoffs, no one drank the kool aid harder. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html Edit: removed paywall https://archive.is/20210517153539/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html TC : 300k
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Could someone share how to go around the paywall?
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You can use 'archive dot ph'
Truest thing ever written on Blind.
My favorite is "TC or GTFO" but this is a close second.
If you read the New York Times, you drink a lot of Koolaid too. Do you pay money to read that garbage propaganda? It’s asking me to sign in to read.
https://archive.is/20210517153539/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html It was the only detailed account in a large publication I found of a new grad at Google drinking the Kool aid for multiple years and getting screwed over. Figured most people would know how to get around paywall, but I've added the link regardless
Thank OP
The removal of “Don’t be Evil” was it.
You sound sad and angry
He speakes the dull reality of the situation that many don't want to see. All jobs are temporary. They are a means to an end. Don't drink the kool-aid indeed. Leave that to the simps.
Amazon is not just retail dumbass.
Innovation mistakes like atomic bomb, or the guy who design furnace at German concentration camp , or fractional reserve banking ???
IDK about “no dream job”…. The Apple employee discounts sound kind of nice.
It’s the facist antisemite Henry Ford that pioneered the idea of paying people to buy his own products.
IDK what that’s all about, but I was definitely going to buy my Apple products anyway, so the discount is nice.
Early Google culture was actually something special. Now it's more like what you say. If you look at the old hat L8+ folks you can still see glimpses of it but they're ever farther and ever fewer between.
It's easier for companies to start off like that when small, have you read No Rules Rules by the Netflix founder? However the moment there's the slightest sign of trouble, big or small all companies show their true colors
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Writing was on the wall once they nixed “Do no evil”
They didn't nix it, they moved it in the code of conduct. You people are morons.
You could argue it was de-prioritized