Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness

Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ilovecaching on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:22AM (#18254220)

I think it's highly dependent on your role, and at its current size your chances of getting lost in some piece of noise is quite high. Of course endless performance reviews also suck. Google is still a great place to work, but it's a corporation now, and there are just some things that don't scale.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by mehrdada on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:24AM (#18254227)

I suspect it'd mostly depend on your personal standards and ambitions than your role. I can't imagine many below-VP positions being much different on this dimension. Even many VPs and up are getting stuck in life-sucking unimportant activities.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by hsaliak on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:36AM (#18254431)

Autonomy is harder and harder to get at larger corporations and play a big role in self identifying work as satisfying or valuable. Even if you manage to get it, it can be taken away by an outsider in a large corp at any point. Startups are safer bets from this perspective.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ilovecaching on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:39AM (#18254281)

You're not wrong. It's definitely personal ambition. I think we all know that getting in != good reviews, moving up, etc.

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