w**z
发帖数: 8232 | 1 http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-worst-part-about-working-at-Go
最后一句是亮点：
You watch many of your coworkers get weird and dependent at Google, and
realize the Google lifestyle has made them basically unemployable anywhere
else. You secretly start wondering if you could cut it on the outside too.
Katy Levinson
Katy Levinson, Former SWE, Infrastructure
74.8k Views • Upvoted by Richard Russell, Ex-Googler ('06-'12) •
Mehmet Fidanboylu, L6 developer @ Google • Piaw Na, Worked at Google
We were essentially rewarded for either dreaming up totally new wildly
innovative things, or improving existing things with hard metrics.
This lead to imaginative unmaintained nightmares, frequently based on
discarded shells of other platforms nobody maintained. We had four internal-
only official javascript libraries. Why? Because writing an innovative
javascript library could get you a promotion! My product was built on a
bastardized version of what one day became Google App Engine (GAE). It
worked sort of like GAE, except without a lot of stuff implemented, and
nobody was maintaining it at all.
It also meant that many other things were maintained longer than they should
have been. You could campaign to have the whole system rewritten, or you
could get a bonus this quarter for twirling up some side metric that didn't
matter a whole lot. What would you do?
This also meant that any improvement not based on a hard metric was flatly
not a respected use of time. Usability? Number of bugs? Nobody cared. If you
couldn't measure it, nobody was interested in it.
Server provisioning was terrible. You were suppose to have your stuff in
enough zones that you could withstand a planned outage, but people were
often lucky to get it up in one. Then they get mad at you when you need to
take it down for maintenance. There was a very clear policy saying have it
in more than one zone, but a lot of the little projects couldn't get the
resources.
And, as Keval mentioned as well, people feel justified asking you why you
left or if you still work there, insist that everything must be perfect.
They don't want to hear anything less than total enthusiasm for your luck
getting into Google, and how much you want to stay. If you left or have
anything other than rainbows and ponies to talk about, nearly everybody from
my mother to my cab driver pretty much demands you explain why you'd be
anything less than thrilled to work at Google. I think that's the marketing
campaign that employees at Google have everything they could ever need to be
happy is one of Google's most impressive products, when in reality, their
perks are not unusual for a company of its size in Silicon Valley at all,
and the majority of the features are replicated in the smaller companies too.
You watch many of your coworkers get weird and dependent at Google, and
realize the Google lifestyle has made them basically unemployable anywhere
else. You secretly start wondering if you could cut it on the outside too. | m***2
发帖数: 595 | 2 传说中的温水煮青蛙
【在 w**z 的大作中提到】
: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-worst-part-about-working-at-Go
: 最后一句是亮点：
: You watch many of your coworkers get weird and dependent at Google, and
: realize the Google lifestyle has made them basically unemployable anywhere
: else. You secretly start wondering if you could cut it on the outside too.
: Katy Levinson
: Katy Levinson, Former SWE, Infrastructure
: 74.8k Views • Upvoted by Richard Russell, Ex-Googler ('06-'12) •
: Mehmet Fidanboylu, L6 developer @ Google • Piaw Na, Worked at Google
: We were essentially rewarded for either dreaming up totally new wildly
| j*****8
发帖数: 3635 | 3 那为啥其它hot company都要狗狗出来的人呢 | b**********5
发帖数: 7881 | 4 google的核心技术是好的。 但google 太大了， 所以我觉得都要看组。。。 不过，
我觉得慢慢的google就会变为microsoft。。。
【在 j*****8 的大作中提到】
: 那为啥其它hot company都要狗狗出来的人呢
| j*****8
发帖数: 3635 | 5 软软一直到去年裁员之前还是可以去的
看来现在去狗狗还是很不错的
【在 b**********5 的大作中提到】
: google的核心技术是好的。 但google 太大了， 所以我觉得都要看组。。。 不过，
: 我觉得慢慢的google就会变为microsoft。。。
| l****l
发帖数: 148 | 6 后面一个回答对于“想去google学技术”的人也很有指导意义:
From an engineering perspective, the upside is that you can focus on
developing your product without worrying too much about how to scale since
things are nicely abstracted from you with GFS, Bigtable, protocol buffers,
etc. The downside is that after doing that for a few years, you may very
quickly lose touch with the real world on how to scale things via open
source technologies. | y**********a
发帖数: 824 | 7
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同感。 只要关注 business logic 就好了，底层全部封装好了。
【在 l****l 的大作中提到】
: 后面一个回答对于“想去google学技术”的人也很有指导意义:
: From an engineering perspective, the upside is that you can focus on
: developing your product without worrying too much about how to scale since
: things are nicely abstracted from you with GFS, Bigtable, protocol buffers,
: etc. The downside is that after doing that for a few years, you may very
: quickly lose touch with the real world on how to scale things via open
: source technologies.
| p*****2
发帖数: 21240 | 8 貌似a也这样
,
【在 l****l 的大作中提到】
: 后面一个回答对于“想去google学技术”的人也很有指导意义:
: From an engineering perspective, the upside is that you can focus on
: developing your product without worrying too much about how to scale since
: things are nicely abstracted from you with GFS, Bigtable, protocol buffers,
: etc. The downside is that after doing that for a few years, you may very
: quickly lose touch with the real world on how to scale things via open
: source technologies.
| i*****o
发帖数: 105 | 9 everywhere, job is a job. | g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 10 所有的大公司都有这个问题，到最后就是拧螺丝，startup比较锻炼人。
当然，技术再好也然并卵，跟对公司最重要。 |
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