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Re:Google executives see cracks in their company’s success by ra7 on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:55PM (#27581716)
> Everything worked fine but I was stuck in application development when I wanted to be a research scientist

This seems to be a fairly common thing at Google. I hear Google "hoards" a lot of PhDs who are just "refactoring APIs and doing migrations". Is this not seen as a problem there wrt retaining talent?

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Re:Google executives see cracks in their company’s success by dekhn on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:05PM (#27581846)
Sure, I knew a ton of PhDs who were workign on random unrelated stuff (like, protein folding genius -> building next gen music UI). You can retain a lot of talent in SV by paying more than other people so that those employees can buy a house here.
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Re:Google executives see cracks in their company’s success by Apocryphon on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:42PM (#27583385)
The whole talent hoarding strategy by big tech sounds anti-competitive as all hell, in spirit if not by any applicable letter of the law.
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