What Ex Googlers are thinking... tales from the quit and canned ex Google employees - GoFuckYourself.com

Pornwolf · 01-18-2009, 10:23 PM

Here's one of the posts from this super long thread of ex-Googler stories

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From: Laurent
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, May 29 2008 9:10 am
Subject: Re: So? Why?d you left, guys? I mean, seriously.
I also left Google after only 5 months.
As soon as I got inside, I had the feeling of being swallowed by a
giant borg
Really, I felt like I didn?t exist, watching people buzzing around
with laptops.
I did however meet with Larry and Sergey during a product review
meeting, and have only good things to say about these 2 guys.
Regarding compensation, I did have to negotiate quite a bit to get on
par with what I earned before.
For options however, I didn?t get much (something like 180 options and
330 gsu).
What was strange with me at Google was: while outside, I had all these
big ideas I could do if I ever worked there.
Once inside, you have 18,000 (at the time, Feb 2008) other googlers
thinking the same things.
I think it?s a good move for them to have App Engine: they won?t need
to hire that many people anymore, or buy small garage-guys because
now developers will be able to develop over the Google OS for free for
Google
One last thing: Google also thinks inside a box (the browser). I felt
this a lot, and was another reason I left. (too constrained)
It?s no surprise that they push to extend what the browser can do.
(Gears, Earth plugin)
Cheers.

doridori · 01-18-2009, 10:29 PM

interesting stuff. thanks.

Iron Fist · 01-18-2009, 10:32 PM

SO the free meals, 401K, stock options and being a millionaire on paper wasn't good enough? Man, talk about entitlement.

starpimps · 01-18-2009, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by sharphead

SO the free meals, 401K, stock options and being a millionaire on paper wasn't good enough? Man, talk about entitlement.

yeah no shit...wow

Pornwolf · 01-18-2009, 11:31 PM

That's a common misunderstanding.

The majority of the googlers don't really have any money.

Especially the ones that came shortly after the ipo.

EscortBiz · 01-18-2009, 11:35 PM

lol great read

Barefootsies · 01-18-2009, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sharphead

SO the free meals, 401K, stock options and being a millionaire on paper wasn't good enough? Man, talk about entitlement.

A-fucking-men.

Ridiculous bullshit of today's society.

woj · 01-18-2009, 11:53 PM

interesting....

WiredGuy · 01-18-2009, 11:56 PM

Unhappy employees willing to spam the index, let me know

WG

collegeboobies · 01-18-2009, 11:58 PM

some great stuff there

tony286 · 01-19-2009, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Pornwolf

That's a common misunderstanding.

The majority of the googlers don't really have any money.

Especially the ones that came shortly after the ipo.

Yeah I guess most saying how could they bitch didnt actually take time to read it. I read the whole thing sounds like most big corporate monsters. Use you up and then spit you out.

Pornwolf · 01-19-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tony404

Yeah I guess most saying how could they bitch didnt actually take time to read it. I read the whole thing sounds like most big corporate monsters. Use you up and then spit you out.

Exactly. It actually sounds worse than most big companies. Less pay, less benefits tons of pretentious attitudes.

This is going to hurt their recruiting efforts.

Kron · 01-19-2009, 04:23 AM

interesting

Azoy? · 01-19-2009, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Pornwolf

Here's one of the posts from this super long thread of ex-Googler stories

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very interesting. thanks.

Fletch XXX · 01-19-2009, 07:47 AM

he went from sweeping the halls to dreaming big for the search engine LOL

how come its always some guy been there less than 6 months, thinks he can make google even better? LOL

pornguy · 01-19-2009, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

he went from sweeping the halls to dreaming big for the search engine LOL

how come its always some guy been there less than 6 months, thinks he can make google even better? LOL

Maybe he could.. But you have to ask yourself why is he NO LONGER there after 6 months.. Maybe he was not as good as he thought.. There are two sides to every story and then some place in the middle is the truth.

Sarah_Jayne · 01-19-2009, 09:00 AM

You hire that many people and there are going to be some that bitch.

seeandsee · 01-19-2009, 09:17 AM

some people need to bitch at end

Scott McD · 01-19-2009, 09:19 AM

He's now flipping burgers somewhere...

tony286 · 01-19-2009, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Scott McD

He's now flipping burgers somewhere...

i doubt that most on that bitching are engineers and they all have degrees out the ass, not webmasters lol

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