Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore

Re:Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore by ef4 on Monday August 25, 2014 @02:09PM (#8223066)

I can sum up the whole article in four words: Google is too big. They have obviously become what they would have despised at the outset: a lumbering bureaucracy.

But I have no interest in being one fifty-thousandth of Google, and to anyone who's on the fence, I'd argue that you'll learn more and wield far more responsibility at a much smaller company.

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Re:Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore by hugs on Monday August 25, 2014 @02:32PM (#8223236)

I wish this was studied more. (Or maybe it is, and I don't know about the research.) My theory is that organizations should follow nature. For example, when a cell gets big enough, it divides in two. I wonder if it would make sense to grow a business that way.

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Re:Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore by nhjk on Monday August 25, 2014 @04:00PM (#8223859)

I think Fog Creek is a good example of this. They recently split Trello off into its own company, and Stack Exchange before that.

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Re:Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore by hugs on Monday August 25, 2014 @04:47PM (#8224152)

I also think of George Lucas as a good model, too -- looking at all the things he created that came out of Star Wars (Lucasfilm, ILM, Pixar, THX, etc.)

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