Re:Google Pay
by stock_toaster on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:46PM
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I once heard that at Google advancement (and thus salary increase) is significantly pinned to shipping new things. As a result, nobody is incentivized to work on maintenance or improvement of existing things. Everybody wants to ship something new, so they can ride along with it up the corporate elevator.
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Counterpoint: I've been promoted 5 times (last was to Director), and i've never shipped anything new, only worked on maintenance or improvement of existing things.
It was probably via [this Quora answer](http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).
I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.
> It was probably via [this Quora answer](http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).
FYI, HN doesn't really have markdown, so that link doesn't work. Instead, generally we do something like this:
> It was probably via this Quora answer[1]
> I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.
>
> 1: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).