Just an FYI, one person's opinion does not apply to the entire company. Just saying because many people just post such blogs to show that they rejected the might Google.
No offense intended.
Just an observation - seems much cooler nowadays to talk about how you rejected the offer from Google to do XYZ other cool thing, or how you worked there for a bit and then were like, yeah, it's nice being at everyone else's dream company, but I got better things to do.
Interesting how it's become a nice way to humblebrag.
Beyond the obvious self-importance embedded in every paragraph of this guy's post, what's the author's point? I've seen these same critiques about data-driven decisions, middle management etc. made about every single large tech company. They're hard to avoid in an org where you have tens of thousands of people. He also didn't talk about anything he accomplished and clearly stated he joined Google just for the networking i.e. "to become an ex-Googler." I'm doubtful he really did anything at all in a short 9 months at Google (just enough to make it past new employee training?) and I'm not sure what this post accomplishes other than making him an extremely undesirable hire at another large tech company. I work at a similarly-sized competitor to Google and this looks like either 1) insecurity about leaving the company 2) a very severe career-limiting move to me. The irony is that a quick LinkedIn search shows he was in people operations at Google!
While I understand the desire to learn about Google from the inside, planning to stay there only 6 months isn't very fair to the employer; the OP may have learned a little from the experience, but Google likely got almost nothing (net) from the employee as it takes more than 6 months to become really productive at Google.
I actually would not want to work with this person knowing he's pulled a "stunt" like this; I think it's unethical.
Sounds like a hiring failure. Of course the probability of that happening across 40,000 employees is high, but I feel like the #1 goal of a hiring process is to avoid training someone for 9 months when he knows he's going to quit.
Besides, I don't think you learn enough by spending a bit of time in a company. To understand, you need to become a manager inside of a company and try your hand at tackling problems. Then, only, you really know what those problems are made of. The correlation is, we need to be humble when we criticise employers. It's hard to organize a company properly.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadInteresting how it's become a nice way to humblebrag.
"Probable the best article I've read as a recent graduate."
Edit: this submission quickly went dead... looks like he realized after reading the comments. The original article is here: http://troysultan.com/post/92475325267/why-im-leaving-google...
I actually would not want to work with this person knowing he's pulled a "stunt" like this; I think it's unethical.
If the right questions had been asked, surely they would have figured out he wanted to do his own thing, and thus there was no point hiring him?
Or maybe he's a very good liar?
Besides, I don't think you learn enough by spending a bit of time in a company. To understand, you need to become a manager inside of a company and try your hand at tackling problems. Then, only, you really know what those problems are made of. The correlation is, we need to be humble when we criticise employers. It's hard to organize a company properly.