Google wins a lot of polls on Blind. If you don't want to work there, why not? Edit: I have my own reasons. Leaving Uber soon but didn't consider Google. Curious to learn others' thinking on this since 90% of time people on Blind are gushing about Google.
Pausing my Googler experience for a few years of growth at Facebook. I'll head back to Google when I can get the level I want to return at.
So too hard to get promo? Not enough opportunities? Something else?
Yes, too hard to get promoted. Also, I love what I get to work on at Facebook and it's not something Google is really investing in - but that sort of thing changes over time, and I'll go back for an exciting opportunity at the right level.
I’m a mechanical engineer.
I am sure somewhere in Alphabet they can make use of a mech engineer
I’ve thought about it, even interviewed a few from there. I’m not convinced it would be a TC upgrade the way it is for many in software and I’m happy and advancing where I’m at. Unless we’re assuming Waymo or something else X I’ve also found their problems to be uninteresting.
It’s not cool to work there anymore. I’d say Uber seems much cooler
The only thing I can think of is all the processes you have to go through to actually launch something (for good reasons to be clear), whereas at a place like Facebook, it's much easier from what I've heard. And the challenging promo process.
Impact + learning. I’ll go to G when I want to just chill and coast by.
Not really, I mean you can impact billions of people and you get really good learning opportunities as well. They have let me transfer to a role for which I wouldn't have qualified and I've worked on billion+ user products, so... I've heard many instances like this. But I agree that it's also a great place to coast.
Cool you’ve worked on billion+ user products bro! What did you do code the color change or font?
I didn't like the interview process. Way too long. Very arrogant.
Geography, they don’t have an office where I want to live
Yeah not a lot of engineering offices outside of CA
Those 90% are probably at google currently - they are so bored using their decent minds of fucking tasks 8th traders can do so instead they spend their days on this app here
Down levels + less TC compared to some of the other companies.
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Hard to get promoted
Chose FB over Google for this