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Why Blind 2. About Us 3. Blog 4. Careers SUPPORT 1. Community Guidelines 2. FAQs 3. Newsroom 4. Updates 5. Sitemap FOLLOW US * Facebook * Instagram * Twitter * Medium * RSS and Atom Feeds DOWNLOAD THE APP: appstore Download Link playstore Download Link (c) 2022 Teamblind, Inc. Privacy and Terms 1. Home 2. Industries 3. Tech Chat with a googler was horrifying New google wtf New SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE google wtf Yesterday 138 Comments * Bookmark * 1. COPY LINK function Throwaway account. Not giving exact dates, genders, company names, or department names. You'll see why. This is 110% "get fired and sued immediately" stuff. You know how your recruiter sets you up for the "chat with a googler" thing where you're free to ask questions to someone inside Google? Mine went totally sideways. The person my recruiter paired me with straight up asked me if my company was still hiring. I laughed (thinking it was a joke) and said yes, and the person starts acting all panicky and immediately starts telling me about google and their inside operations, and why I need to look elsewhere or stay put. They told me how screwed up everything is... promotions have been almost entirely frozen, no bonuses, constant rumors about another massive wave of layoffs, entire departments getting reorganized, the joke named Bard, Google's only real revenue stream (ads) being threatened, and this person has had their role changed a bunch recently, and they want OUT. They asked if they could add me on LinkedIn, and I said yes. They added me ON CAMERA and asked me to accept, and submit a reference for them at my company. I didn't really know what to say. This person has been in Google between 5-10 years, was selected by my recruiter, and is above a senior-level SWE level. Very obviously extremely smart, and I think they're panicking because Google may be a lot worse inside than we're hearing. Current TC: 341k Yrs of Experience: 9 277 138 facebook twitter reddit hacker news link hamburger button comments Want to comment? LOG IN or SIGN UP 1. TOP 2. RECENT 3. OLD TOP 138 Comments * Amazon Bika340 Go to company page Amazon SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE Bika340 god damn, props to the guy or gal for being honest Yesterday 514 13 + View 11 more replies... + Meta Tsza31 Go to company page Meta SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE Tsza31 @bytedance well.. unless you're at meta lmao Yesterday 0 + Uber SherlokHo Go to company page Uber SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE SherlokHo Amazon may be brutal, but it is a decent place for these who work hard and deliver results. It has leaders with both business and technical vision, diversified revenue streams, it's even catching up with Google in Ads space, despite Bezos never really cared about Ads, it was just an easy money for him. Google is a geek sanctuary utopia turning into dystopia. They thought the more top talent they hire the more killer product ideas these talented (and grateful) engineers will produce. Their interview process was designed for hiring people, who are passionate about software engineering and who solve hard problems for the love of the game, but they now can't tell this group from mercenaries-leetcoders, who's goal is not to work at Google, but get into Google for TC and job security which seemed to be guaranteed, till recent. I know someone very average who spent 1.5 years prepping and once they got in, they could finally go home at 3 pm. After over a year of hard work getting in, they sure deserved little time off at Google resort. I'm sure there are teams and people who work hard and smart but there is too much deadwood it seems. When we hire SWEs from FB, almost everyone is good. If it's Google, it's hit or miss, 50/50. All do well in interviews, but many are too relaxed and expect pure coding problems, trying to rewrite something, build some multi-year effort "next gen" shit, rather than solving actual business problems. Yesterday 5 * DoorDash bobbill234 Go to company page DoorDash SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE bobbill234 What's the problem? Would you rather them tell you everything is great when it's not? I swear people love hearing BS!! Yesterday 107 3 + View 1 more reply... + DoorDash bobbill234 Go to company page DoorDash SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE bobbill234 Sounds like he focused too much on the internal culture? That person and their feels are definitely apart of google. As I'm reading here on blind. So why hide it? Yesterday 8 + Nike 0ptimusPri Go to company page Nike SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE 0ptimusPri so much for comfortable coasting on Google groovy train. Poor chap must be having bills to pay and $HCOL mortgage. Please do the needful, OP! Yesterday 5 * Airbnb HughJaynes Go to company page Airbnb SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE HughJaynes Yeah that definitely didn't happen. Nice fan fic tho. Yesterday 119 6 + View 4 more replies... + New / Eng .ts New Eng SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE .ts @Github lemme take ur spot after u join Airbnb bro Yesterday 0 + Google CGGw64 Go to company page Google SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE CGGw64 Yeah its got massive "and then everyone clapped." energy. Yesterday 0 * Google uwndouen Go to company page Google SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE uwndouen Sounds about right Yesterday 150 3 + View 1 more reply... + Google / Eng atatebros Go to company page Google Eng PRE Intuit SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE atatebros +1 Yesterday 15 + New LYyD42 New SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE LYyD42 Is this a recent development or has it been like this for a while? 6h 1 * Google jIph84x Go to company page Google SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE jIph84x Lol, this is great. I can't speak for this person's area - maybe it is a complete pit. If the role you are applying for is in the same area as them, it's a good signal not to proceed. Otherwise, it's just one person over-extrapolating from their own bad experience to the whole company. I'm not going to comment on our financials in public other than to say that a SWE who lacks good judgement to vent confidential info to job candidates is not the best source of info. But the stuff about bonuses is definitely false for the company as a whole - eg some very sizable grants and bonuses in my team. The layoffs didn't affect some areas at all, and hit others badly. But right now it's hard to find a company that hasn't laid off staff at all / is guaranteed not to do it in the future. If you are in such a company, I would not hop jobs if I were you. If not then the risk is just something you have to deal with for a bit in the tech downturn. Yesterday 105 6 + View 4 more replies... + Google wut22 Go to company page Google SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE wut22 I actually don't know any orgs where bonus and/or equity was not given out to SWEs. There are cases of 0% base raise for some people who joined last year. Yesterday 1 + Wells Fargo EuJx34 Go to company page Wells Fargo SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE EuJx34 Your Google bing product being an utter turd and the abusive way your CEO treats employees in layoffs says otherwise Yesterday 0 + View more comments... RELATED KEYWORDS * Amazon L6 * Amazon L7 * Google L4 * Google L5 * Leetcode * Salary Comparison!! MOST READ RELATED KEYWORDS * Amazon L6 * Amazon L7 * Google L4 * Google L5 * Leetcode * Salary Comparison!! [https://www.teamblin] OPEN IN APP close Top About * Why Blind * About Us * Blog * Careers Support * Community Guidelines * FAQs * Updates * Sitemap Facebook Instagram Twitter Medium RSS and Atom Feeds DOWNLOAD THE APP App Store Google Play (c) 2022 Teamblind, Inc. Privacy and Terms