I found my experience at Google to be different. While you have your primary job, and that's what you are judged on, you are free to experiment, innovate, create, and so forth, and Google is very good at recognizing self-started impact and rewarding these folks with more opportunities.
Is the age old problem mean I'm too young to be taken seriously in any context?
No, that the problem itself has been around a long time (at least since the late 70s PC boom).
Re:My Interviews with Amazon
by brianwawok on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:50AM
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Nothing about your age just a problem that isn't new.
Big companies do really big thing. Google is literally changing the world. But if you get a job there, you are employee #145,231. Maybe if you work hard for 5 years you can rise to the rank of middle manager, and attend a meeting with someone that reports to the CEO, and maybe you can try to get a project you want done scheduled. More likely you will just do the work you are assigned until you quit.
Now a startup is the opposite. Blank startup has no power to change anything. But within that startup, you have 100% voice. If you work really hard, in 5 years maybe your startup will be big and you can change the world. Or more likely, they will go under or get bought out and you have not changed the world.