Former Employees Talk About Google
Tech Crunch has some fascinating letters from former Google employees, speaking about their experiences there. Many have good things to say, though some have some very interesting things to say about the hiring process, and the slipshod manner in which the entire operation is run.
Given that these are former employees, a certain amount of the stories can be taken as sour grapes, but there are details that crop up in many letters, identical, in fact.
Many speak of the intense feelings of failure they experienced, because ‘everyone knows how great it is to work for Google’ and therefore the person must either be a screw-up or mentally incompetent. It turned out, after seeing the points the others were making, that neither of those things were true.
Also, there are quite a few that left, knowing that Google was not for them, but with no resentments towards the company.
The letters are a must read for anyone wanting an insight into the corporate culture of this huge, relatively new internet entity.
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8 Comments
Ron Knights
January 18th, 2009
at 3:31pm
So where are the letters?
the oracle
January 18th, 2009
at 10:05pm
Ron Knights, follow the hyperlink “Tech Crunch’. Sorry if it wasn’t clear.
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January 19th, 2009
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Wesley D. Brown
January 19th, 2009
at 8:23pm
After 40 years in technology and “firsts” in up to 11 desperate areas per year, I can see why this is happening. The orginal goals and abilities have “apparently” been lost to the “few” that rule their private “kingdoms”. Then there is “implosion” lots of it as the components of the machine begin their individual “turf” wars for survival and self destruct all others. Your report is eye opening in many ways, dreams and achivements are great, but loss of “breadth” of “scope” creates internal destruction that in turn is not repairable. Compare to IBM, Unsys, and thousands of others it becomes a large machine that “eats” it’s abilities from within, therefore competition eats their food stuffs.
the oracle
January 19th, 2009
at 10:03pm
Wesley D. Brown – yes, but Google was supposed to have broken that mold – too bad it didn’t.