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- utopian2
Google employees confess all the worst things about working at Google
"There are students from top 10 colleges who are providing tech support for Google's ads products, or manually taking down flagged content from YouTube, or writing basic code to A|B test the color of a button on a site."
"Any improvement not based on a hard metric was flatly not a respected use of time," said a former Google software engineer. "Usability? Number of bugs? Nobody cared. If you couldn't measure it, nobody was interested in it."
"Work/life balance. What balance? All those perks and benefits are an illusion. They keep you at work and they help you to be more productive. I've never met anybody at Google who actually [took] time off on weekends or on vacations. You may not hear management say, 'You have to work on weekends/vacations' but, they set the culture by doing so - and it inevitably trickles down."
"They hire the same person over and over again," said an anonymous commenter. "Same background, same 10 schools, same worldview, same interests. It's no exaggeration to say that I met 100 triathletes in my three years at Google. Only a handful of them were interesting people."
- well, thanks utopian, I'll make sure to save this article for when I build my multibillion company :)GeorgesIV
- Power to my peopleutopian
- Boz disagrees
http://www.qbn.com/t…yuekit - And did Google force any of these employees to apply and start working there? C'mon now. Doesn't even sound all that bad for a student's first job.chukkaphob
- Plus, pay/benefits are good/great. Not to mention having Google on the resume paves the way for a decent career.chukkaphob
- Triathletes need a lot of time to do their sports though...SimonFFM