{"id":22749,"date":"2023-03-20T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bornrealist.com\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:53:18","slug":"google-employees-confess-these-are-the-worst-things-about-working-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornrealist.com\/google-employees-confess-these-are-the-worst-things-about-working-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Employees Confess These Are The Worst Things About Working There"},"content":{"rendered":"
Getting a job in google is no <\/strong>less than going to heaven! right?<\/strong><\/p>\n But even people who work in the giant of tech companies “Google” can have it so hard that they don’t feel like they should be working there.<\/p>\n Well, let’s have a look at some of the replies of former and current working staff at the Big G. Some of the comments are a bit edited in the following.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The worst part of working at Google, for many people, is that they’re overqualified for their job. Google has a very high hiring bar due to the strength of the brand name, the pay & perks, and the very positive work culture. As a result, they have their pick of bright candidates,\u00a0even for the most low-level roles.”<\/em><\/p>\n “There are students from top 10 colleges who are providing tech support for Google’s ads products, or manually taking down flagged content from YouTube, or writing basic code to A|B test the colour of a button on a site.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “\u2026 I used to joke with my colleagues that\u00a0Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts\u00a0– tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you’ll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht\/set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like “was a GM at muti-national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.”\u00a0 and then they would erupt in laughter and clink their cigars & Scotch together in celebration.\u00a0 This, of course, is highly unlikely given neither of them would ever smoke a cigar or drink Scotch.\u00a0 <\/em>The remainder is plausible.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credits: shutterstock.com<\/p>\n “Google was not a start-up environment\u00a0by the time I left. The same office politics. It was easy to get promoted if you worked on the right projects and projected your work in the right way.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Unfortunately, in spite of the common belief, I think the average level of Google engineers is mediocre.\u00a0With a lot of arrogance, too. Everybody believes he (males dominate) is better than his neighbour. So it is really hard to discuss any issue unless it is your friend you are talking to. Objective discussions are pretty rare, since everybody’s territorial, and not interested in opinions of other people unless those people are Important Gods.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I worked at Google for 3 years and it was very difficult to leave but there was one major factor that helped me make the decision – the impact I could ever have on the business as an individual was minimal. As noted in many answers below,\u00a0Google is an incredible machine\u00a0that prints money thanks to AdWords. Unless you are an amazingly talented engineer who gets to create something new, chances are you’re simply a guy\/girl with an oil can greasing the cogs of that machine.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I’d say the relentless daily mediocre thinking of middle management types who are completely focused on metrics to the exclusion of all other factors.\u00a0They don’t want to rock the boat, they don’t know how to inspire their workforce, and they rely far too much on the Google name and reputation to do that for them.”<\/em><\/p>\n Image credits: shutterstock.com<\/p>\n “There is\u00a0not enough focus on product and visual design.\u00a0 This has led to many aborted\/semi-successful products, like Wave, Google Video, Buzz, Dodgeball, Orkut, Knol, and Friend Connect.\u00a0 There is probably too much focus on pure engineering.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credits: shutterstock.com<\/p>\n “… if you have to work in one of the four main campus buildings, you will\u00a0most likely be extremely cramped. It’s not uncommon to see 3-4 employees in a single cube, or several managers sharing an office. With all the open areas for food, games, TV, tech talks, etc, it can be surprisingly hard to find a quiet, private place to think.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “If you are in the process of gaining employment with Google, negotiate hard, be demanding, and make sure to get\u00a0EVERYTHING in writing. Google makes lots of vague promises, and seems to not deliver.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “In <\/em>Zurich there is a quiet room where people go to <\/em>relax, or take a nap. There are very nice looking fish tanks there and you can waste as much of your work time there, watching the fish do fishy things. There was\u00a0a 100+ emails thread about removing the massage chairs\u00a0from that room because some people allegedly were being kept from sleeping because the massage chairs were too noisy.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credits: shutterstock.com<\/p>\n “It’s like never-never land – people never grow up.\u00a0 They\u00a0drink at all hours, socialize constantly, play games, and do little to no work.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “But the killer to me was the\u00a0inability to work remotely, which I have been doing successfully for the past 5-6 years.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “As someone who has worked for a temp job working for Google, the worst part is the smug attitude of those who work for the REAL Google. They seem to think that anyone who isn’t working for the actual Google like they are is\u00a0somehow mentally and morally inferior.”<\/em><\/p>\n Article credits:\u00a0businessinsider.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting a job in google is no less than going to heaven! right? But even people who work in the giant of tech companies “Google” can have it so hard that they don’t feel like they should be working there. Well, let’s have a look at some of the replies of former and current working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":37281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[1189,1188],"yoast_head":"\nEveryone seems so amazing and awesome that they hire even the best people to do mundane jobs for them.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
There are quite internal jokes about the outstanding staff of Google.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Google has not remained a startup only, it has become a big corporation.<\/h2>\n
They have got many engineers that show arrogance only.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
It has risen to become so big that you can’t have any type of impact on it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The middle management they have is only mediocre.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Here Are 11 Facts Taught in School That Are Complete Lies<\/a><\/h2>\n
Google may understand engineering, but not design.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Your office space can be too small.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Get things in writing.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Googlers can get caught up in trivia.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The culture is quite immature.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
There is no chance that you can’t work remotely.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Googlers treat temps with disrespect.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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