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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by steelframe on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:44PM (#22409249)
To be fair, Google in the early-mid 2000s was actually a really good career option. If you played your cards right you could easily be comfortably retired today if you started at Google in, say, 2004. In fact I know someone who started at Google fresh out of college in 2005 and was in "FIRE" (Financial Independence, Retire Early) zone by 2017. They quit Google, didn't work for a couple of years, and then took a senior position at a San Francisco startup, where they work 35-hour weeks playing with shiny new hardware tech and couldn't care less whether they're laid off.

Google is still a great place to land as a new college grad, but these days I would consider many other options as an experienced professional. There are indicators that Google is starting to run into issues detailed in The Innovator's Dilemma, particularly with respect to its Cloud business.

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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by unishark on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:12PM (#22410087)
Sure now it looks like it was a good option. But it's kind of survivorship bias. Were they smarter than anyone else working elsewhere, or just lucky to have had all their eggs in that particular basket for 15 years?

And if you say smart, what's the current smart choice? (I will be checking back in 15 years to follow up).

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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by rhizome on Monday February 24, 2020 @07:31PM (#22409851)
If I was hiring at a relatively tiny startup, a person who had only ever worked at Google and didn't need the job on top of it wouldn't be my first choice. Probably sounds good at meetings though.
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Re:Google interviewing process for software developer role i... by sk5t on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:10PM (#22410385)
Yeah, if "doesn't need the job" is in the top five things you'd say about them as a team member... you really want people who will tolerate or even attack with some zeal the grind that it is to get a business going.
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