Re:Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
by varelse on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:08PM
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That was precisely my experience, but I did see a lot of things going on around me that were both interesting and for which I was far better qualified than what was assigned to me. The dealbreaker for me was when it was made abundantly clear that there was a near zero chance of transferring off my assigned gig, and given that I had plenty of other options besides Google, I quit and moved on to one of them.
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Re:Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
by michaelochurch on Friday August 03, 2012 @07:55AM
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The dealbreaker for me was when it was made abundantly clear that there was a near zero chance of transferring off my assigned gig, and given that I had plenty of other options besides Google, I quit and moved on to one of them.
Yes, that's horrible. It's harder to get a decent transfer than a promotion, but if you start out on a dud, you're not going to get either on a decent schedule.
Did they say why they were keeping you stuck there? Don't they realize that they're losing good people with these policies?
For most people (the 80% that will never get anything interesting, but that Google will happily use for grunt work) Google is culturally a halfway house for those who are afraid of adult life. You have foosball tables but no chance of getting on a good project. It's infantilizing.