Why do people join Google despite downleveling
Sep 26, 2019
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I have noticed a lot of GPM/ principal PMs with several years of industry experience at companies like ebay, PayPal joining google as L5- it baffles me as to what is so amazing about this transition that people are willing to be downleveled?
I'm personally contemplating leaving google after being here for 4+ years but I wonder if I'm missing something ...
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3 years later, no promo. Does it mean I was hired into the right level at Google? No, that means that I was fooled.
The manager may make the mistake of making them the mentor as well which further exacerbates the problem.
Google's perf system is not very intuitive and this is often used to hold people back.