most people at Google don’t get to work on interesting stuff ?
I have been seeing many posts on blind that say that most people at Google don’t get to work on interesting stuff, most the work is boring/maintenance kind of work. I received a few offers including Google, the above is concerning me . Fellow Googlers is that true ?
At least some do, as opposed to none at all in many other companies.
4 years here, yet to be bored. but obviously you won't be solving huge problems every single day.
OP what has your experience been at Facebook? Maybe Googlers can then tell you how Google might be similar or different.
I mean G has like 10k engineers, of course many or even most spend some percentage of time maintaining/enhancing the existing systems. The codebase continues to grow and so does the need to maintain (hopefully linearly). That’s just common sense, no?
Google has 40k engineers.
Metromile guy living in 2005.
“Most people at google do NOT get to work on interesting stuff” No. No they don’t? Or no they don’t not to get to work on interesting stuff.
Most people work on really tedious, boring stuff. Like making the 99.9% available service 99.95%, by adding hot spares and failover and staged rollouts and monkey tests or load benchmarking or better load balancing. You thought you went to google to change the world? No, you went there to add another 9 to the reliability of google. Now shut up and cash your paycheck ...
ROFL
I work on the so-called interesting stuff - tumor detection through AI. Don't fall for the good-work trap. It all gets boring after some time, just evaluate based on money, growth, and culture.
In the Bay < 1 mil is peanuts
Very curious how much percentage of engs in this industry is doing really interesting work...
With 1.5m job applicants per year, and with the ability to literally hire someone 5s after you leave your job, management feels absolutely no need to give employees interesting and challenging work. Most people are doing work 2 levels below their pay grade. And as a whole, Google tends to do a shitty job of documenting everything, so getting the info needed to do your work is 2 pay grades higher than the work you are doing. So, boring work, but unbelievably difficult to get the information needed to do it - that's google.
meh, you're painting it with very broad brush. "the management feels no need to give employees interesting and challenging work", what? bs. all the applicants are not qualified, a new person doesn't come up to speed instantly, etc. churn is important and paid attention to. documentation is a perpetual problem with software, engineers neglect it in pursuit of shiny things to work on.
TC or GTFO !!
TC: 340k
Yeah let’s call people out for information and then when they give it, call em liars! Fuck yeah! EDIT: well he deleted his comment so now I look like an idiot.