• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      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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        6 months ago

        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.