1. Go work for Series A,B,C startups and somehow manage the same salary. 2. Go work for Banks or Federal agencies or for some other Fortune companies on a much reduced pay. 3. Gang up together and create products/services which Google failed to launch. IMHO, option 3 should be the most daring and dangerous thing to do because these are the highest quality of software engineers you can ever get(this is not my opinion but the most popular one). They are the masters of LeetCode, Algorithms, Data Structures, Dynamic Programming, AI, ML, Deep Learning, Tensor Flow, Deep Search, Nearest Neighbor Search etc. Does the Blind Community think despite all these arsenal in their bank, they somehow lack the Daring Entreprenual spirit? Are they all trained corporate mon**ys after all? I simply dare the ex-Googlers to create a technology which can simply fundamentally change something what Google does now for its 200 Billion Dollar annual payout. Example: Predict Dow Jones, NASDAQ etc indices for tomorrow. For premium version predict for any stock ticker for any stock exchange. And then compare predicted vs real values after the fact. Just imagine how this will blow up the Financial Markets. Ex-Googlers please ponder and you all have an opportunity of your lives, if you think that you are all a special class of heroes....
Predicting stocks is not a technical challenge. If it was remotely even possible, you would have 100s of billions of $ chasing after such tech.
You assume creating a business that disrupts 100-200B sizes existing businesses, is all about getting access to top talent? You are just too naive
"ex-googlers" is not a single individual. They are all different people with different needs and life situations. Most might not even know the others. Why would they partake in any group activity just because they happened to have been in the laid off bucket? It makes sense they revolt or demonstrate together, but one can't think they would all just get together and execute one of your options.
Find a job like a normal person.
I have seen few google employees not able to pass my interviews. I have seen a junior from MIT having difficulties to cope up with our team pace. Don’t create fantasy over tags. If someone is worthless, it doesn’t matter where they are.
Get 5 arrogant people on one team and they’re destroy themselves. It’s much more nuanced than simply getting smart people in a room. We still can’t agree on Covid lol. Maybe tackle poverty 😂. We have enough tech, we need to get more efficient and effective with the tools we have at our hands right now. I just interviewed someone today that couldn’t get his camera to turn on 🤦🏻
1 & 3- for everyone impacted, not just ex-Googlers Now is the time for startups and entrepreneurship to shine. The recent layoffs have shown that talent is too densely populated in big tech and thus gives big tech too much control over the industry, our lives, and competition in the market. This is the time to make the tech industry competitive again. Talent needs to spread out to startups, help grow startups, and create that competition in the market. People need to stop with the FAANG-or-nothing attitude. FAANG is not the end all be all to your career and it’s time that talent stops concentrating only on a handful of large companies. We need to create an environment in the industry where there are hundreds of “FAANG” style companies and not just a few, and if there is any time to start, it’s now.
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How’re they different from ex-Snap, Reddit, Quora, Robinhood, stripe? They are better talent than googlers
Lol, ironic that you would criticize OP’s generalization by making an even broader generalization (and put your own company at the top of the list 😂)
How’s it ironic? Also, It’s a fact. Half my team including my manager are googlers. You can check this for yourself on LinkedIn