andrew comments on Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 164 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

The workplace, or at least career progression, is like 50% politics lol. Google is no different.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In fact, I've heard Google is especially bad here. You only get ahead by shipping a product, and getting a project approved is largely politicking. It's one of the more political business environments around.

My company seems a lot better. We don't have aggressive ladder climbing like the big tech firms, we instead value consistency.

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

You only get ahead by shipping a product, and getting a project approved is largely politicking

Yep - I had a friend who worked for three years at Google, none of the products he worked on ever shipped and eventually he gave up on ever receiving a good salary (bonuses/stock options/etc are supposed to be most of the pay, but you only get that by working on a successful product)

They have ten major campuses worldwide that focus on product development, but only one of those actually ships products regularly.

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

And working on stuff that never gets shipped/used is demoralising too. No product to be proud of making/maintaining etc.

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's the digital equivalent of working in a coalmine.

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