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 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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