Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself. "Hurry, we need the design by Monday." Work most of Sunday. "Never mind. We've changed the roadmap/project. We don't need that." (Rinse, repeat.) Review time: "You didn't deliver much this quarter."

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[–]madcow-5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of this applies to all sorts of companies when it's the role of coders.

I think there's something about the bosses not understanding the increasing complexity of the shit they're asking for. Not being able to see the 10 projects you roll out a week now are 20x more complicated than the 5 a week you'd complete a year prior, and infinitely more complicated than the ones from the year before that, even though you're only making $5k more a year.

[–]bagano1 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They obviously were trying to get rid of that person. People see the salaries these companies pay 20-somethings but don't realize you make that for a few years before you cease to be useful to them. They're absolute scumbags. Big Tech has destroyed many cities like this.

[–]Extract 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I swear I read this 2 years ago. Oh, wait, it IS two years old.

Still a great article, tho.

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If you can't prove that you productively polished the turd, then no nice review for you!

[–]SimonGhoul 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

biggest problem with google. It's always all about the numbers, that sonetimes may not even be accurate (annotations and community subtitles being removed) shame

[–]bagano1 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They were playing games to get rid of that person.