"If you get hired you will end up working on boring maintenance/refactoring tasks, or some non-fancy infrastructure crap.
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So uh, you think everyone should be working on shiny stuff?
"Google is like a big frat house. The amount of unprofessional behavior got so out of control that Urs Hölzle himself had to write a 'No jerks' manifesto to teach Googlers how to behave in a work environment. Yes, it's that bad."
This was written about a particular situation where a large number of googlers were badmouthing their colleagues in one particular part of the company whose decisions they disagreed with voiciferously. Given what the vast majority of HN has written about those decisions, i'm not sure this was a solvable problem outside of someone up above saying "calm down".
"Engineers no longer make decisions, it's all done by PMs who only care about meeting their OKR's."
If you abdicated your authority to make decisions to product managers, in 99% of cases, you have no one to blame but yourself.
There is certainly an overgrown sense of entitlement. However, I strongly disagree with your conclusions.
So uh, you think everyone should be working on shiny stuff?
"Google is like a big frat house. The amount of unprofessional behavior got so out of control that Urs Hölzle himself had to write a 'No jerks' manifesto to teach Googlers how to behave in a work environment. Yes, it's that bad."
This was written about a particular situation where a large number of googlers were badmouthing their colleagues in one particular part of the company whose decisions they disagreed with voiciferously. Given what the vast majority of HN has written about those decisions, i'm not sure this was a solvable problem outside of someone up above saying "calm down".
"Engineers no longer make decisions, it's all done by PMs who only care about meeting their OKR's."
If you abdicated your authority to make decisions to product managers, in 99% of cases, you have no one to blame but yourself.
There is certainly an overgrown sense of entitlement. However, I strongly disagree with your conclusions.