[HN Gopher] Seen on Blind: "Chat with a googler was horrifying"
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       Seen on Blind: "Chat with a googler was horrifying"
        
       Author : GalenErso
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-03-23 22:29 UTC (31 minutes ago)
        
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       | GalenErso wrote:
       | __I am not the original poster__.
       | 
       | Original post:
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       | 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
        
       | fortylove wrote:
       | Wow. I've gotten glimpses of this from friends who have almost
       | all now left Google. From the outside, it seems that the
       | political structure in place within Google exists purely to
       | perpetuate it's own existence as a political structure, vs
       | driving towards a deliberate balance of customer value/employee
       | happiness.
       | 
       | My friends used to talk about how they loved it there, and got to
       | work on impactful things. But slowly that shifted to "all we do
       | is take a half year to add a field to a proto", and then "at
       | least it pays well".
       | 
       | I don't have anything in particular to add here, but it seems a
       | shame that Google has fallen so far.
        
       | angarg12 wrote:
       | Are anonymous Blind posts really worth of HN front page?
        
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