Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by dmitrygr on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:39PM (#30536457)

  > It works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person.

Clearly you have no idea how much churn is common in SV. At google after a 2-year tenure your "percent" (what percent of SWE is newer than you) reaches 50%. What personal relationships do all those who were hired remote and never saw the inside of the office have?

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by rightbyte on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:32AM (#30538184)

That is just insane churn. There has to be so much wasted work when so much project knowledge is dropped.

Two years is nothing. You just got warm in your cloths and started to perform.

Edit: There most be impossible to have a stable engineering "culture" in such companies.

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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by UncleMeat on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:54AM (#30540273)

This is made somewhat misleading by insane growth. Even if there is no churn your percent is still surprisingly high because of new hires that are coming from new headcount.

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