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Google – “Not so diverse

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Sep 19, 2009

3.0

Google Anonymous in Mountain View, CA:   (Current Employee)

Pros

Good food, good perks, fun smart people.

Cons

They hire too many young overachievers - people who have only ever "shown aptitude for having aptitude", as that one writer said. So it feels like half of everyone is angry about learning what being in the workforce is actually like, and shocked that you don't get promoted for working 12 hours a day and having aptitude and a great GPA.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer a class to the young employees about this topic: reality. Actually, also make the older employees who have only ever worked at Google take the same class. This includes many in senior management.

Comment (1)

Nov 15, 2009

by sounds like a bad mix:

I don't think i would want to work in a place full of young over-achievers. That means they have no perspective. They are not kind and gentle. Seems like you get that treatment during the interview process, they just ask the questions that they know the answer to, instead of questions that you would ask and what questions you find interesting. Yeah, I think I will pass.
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