Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance
by pm90 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:51AM
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Getting managers excited is one of the unwritten skills required at L5+ lol.
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Ya.. I get it, but I don't have the energy to try to convince people to be excited for a project that I'm barely excited for. Nothing I ever do here is exciting. Thought maybe working on app with over a billion users would be exciting, but all we ever do is steal features from other apps.
Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance
by brandmeyer on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:38AM
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> all we ever do is steal features from other apps.
Strategically, this is called being a Fast Follower. One of GOOG's problems is that it acts in the market as a fast follower, but tells itself internally that its an groundbreaking innovator. Your reaction (which was also my reaction),
> Nothing I ever do here is exciting. Thought maybe working on app with over a billion users would be exciting...
is a form of corporate-wide cognitive dissonance between GOOG's propaganda and reality.