So I interviewed at Google and got stuck in team matching. One of my former colleagues who works there (and referred me) says things have completely changed, morale is super low, layoffs every week, place being run by consultants. Is this true googlers? Does leadership have any vision or path for the next 10 years? People mock Meta for metaverse and llama, but they have some demonstrable vision and roadmap. Does Google? #tech #google #meta
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It’s been dead for 10+ years
Google didn't have any vision for past 5+ years except play catch with other companies like open AI and AWS.
Nah. It’s more like a culture shift and people will adapt to it overtime.
Yes this is true, they are also starting to outsource only to low cost countries like India, Mexico, Poland etc. Its not really consultants running things like the first round of layoffs, but many of the exec/VP roles have been crammed with finance/MBA types who have no idea about tech and only know how to cut costs in the cursed Jack Welch tradition. Latest round of layoffs doesn’t even align with the AI first babbling. Main plan these days seems only to pump the stock without any of the older Google ambitions to innovate. At best they’ll copy or play catch up with Meta and MS.
I worked in Ads and Commerce from 2014-2019. When I started things were still very Googley, strong business, great vision, great talent, highly motivated to succeed. Patrick Pitchet was CFO and ran the business side with amazing results and an emphasis on maintaining their unique culture. Larry and Sergey were both heavily involved and still ran weekly TGIFs from Charlie’s Café in Mountain View. Times were good. By the time I left, Sundar had taken over as CEO with his characteristic lack of charisma and vision that made Balmer amazing by comparison. Ruth Porat had taken over as CFO and immediately, though slowly and steadily started cutting costs and benefits and putting her Wall Street first brand on everything she touched. Around this time they made the changes to the company mission to relegate “Don’t be Evil” to a footnote at the end instead of where it used to be, prominently up front. By the time I left, I looked up seven levels in my org chart and found exclusively ex-McKinsey consultants all the way up from my immediate manager all the way up to Sundar Pichai, CEO. McKinsey types not only lack vision, they are ruthlessly political. They mark their domain like a dog pissing on a fire hydrant. Then they have turf wars to build their empires at the expense of the company. They are parasites who suck the life blood out of once great companies. If you work for a company that starts hiring ex-McKinsey folks as managers, run for the hills. Whatever culture created the value that originally made the company great will be gone before you know it. Replaced with toxic politics and a new Wall Street mantra of shareholder value over everything that made the company successful in the first place.
"ex-McKinsey folks as managers" ==> "ex-McKinsey and ex-Amazon folks as managers" Just added Amazon managers to the list, everything else looks good.
Take it all with a grain of salt. According to blind, Amazon is a toxic cesspool. I absolutely love it here and so do my team mates. So yeah
Not surprising after they announced they are going to reduce the workforce in the US and hire in India and Mexico instead. If you go to Google India or Mexico, you will find high morale and happy new hires there.
Culture part is true. But it’s still a very good place to work with awesome WLB.
McKinsey educated CEO replacing everyone with cheap labor
Curious about this as well...
I am also curious
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