Why Leave Google?

The last thing we want is someone ELSE's dream job. When is the right time to leave? Hopefully my decision to leave Google will help in determining when is the right time for you to leave for greener pastures.

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[a]

I’ve been at Google too and I 100% agree with you on everything you said.

Lazy people love the newer environment because they can work harder at politics and focus on sabotaging people’s projects. It’s so frustrating to work there when you actually want to do cool things.

[Gsp_in_NYC]

I think it is shocking to smart people when they finally realize that management is less concerned about pure analytical problem solving, prioritization, and prudent decisions than running companies on something akin to the Russian Gov't -- power, influence, loyalty.

[brekedekdang]

This is my third video of yours that I watched. I am in the U.S. Military. Like the Corporations you discuss, it is much like a dictatorship. The organization wants people who fall in line and do things the way they want, and don't take a lot of risks. Creativity is stifled. If you have an idea, it often gets stomped out. Even if you come up with a great idea and are able to get it to take off with leadership, good luck getting any credit for what you did.

I really like your perspective. Over the past several years, I think I turned on my blinders and have been narrowly focused on trying to perform well at work to get ahead. It has backfired for me, as I have remained at the same rank for the past 7 years. I do think that often promotions are used as a carrot on a stick to dangle in front of you to keep you coming into work every day and trying to do well.

These videos are helping me change my perspective. I have a few years left to receive my military pension, and then will likely be in the market for a new, different job, or maybe start my own thing. Regardless, I really love your insights and will keep watching more of your videos.

[deltapi]

The first people were smart. Those who came after them got the reputation for it.

[martinschulz]

Ideas constantly being rejected takes away incentive; pretty soon you're just putting in your time and dreaming of bigger things.

[akuskus]

The same is happening in many big corporations and it's disheartening. The lowering of standards, the extreme bias to one side of the political spectrum, the appearance of hiring random people from the street who just create enormous amount of defects in internal systems and never thinking it is weird that using a feature pretty much always includes filing a bug report and waiting to get someone to take a look to fix the issue manually in their system. Nothing works out of the box. The quality of documentation and communication skills are also on the level of 5-year olds. It's like living in idiocracy.

[patruff]

Great video. Honest, insightful, and well-delivered. I'm a tech guy former consultant and this rings very true to me.

[Meritumas]

I am in the 2nd company that favours DEI over skills. Guess what? Smart and intelligent people leave.

[WTHenry]

When I first saw Google Earth in the early 2000s, I was blown away. The amount of innovation over the next few years was mind boggling; however, it appears that the innovation has been frozen in its tracks over the last 5-10 years. They may be still making a lot of $ BUT no recent innovations come to mind. It is quickly IBM'img itself.

[unitedstatesofpostamerica]

The problem of launching a bug to a billion people is very scary. I’ve been on that end and understand why at that scale it gets hard to do new things.

[iceman.]

I have been moving away from Google products actively. I don't want my money to go to corporations that censor free speech and have open extreme political stance.

[MrDarthvis]

When a video is an example of how a true Glassdoor review should be 😂

Instead of fake positive reviews (probably made by HR) that help inflate the overall score of a company.😅

[spinnetti]

Same pattern for every company. Agile, innovate, create, win, protect the castle, stagnate and the next disrupter arises...

[shesagoddess]

Thank you for all your videos and speaking on this topic ❤

[thelibertarianftw]

Thanks for your insightful videos. As a corporate employee I can relate to many of your analyses.

[sadigov]

My pronouns are and I moonwalk into meetings!

[musicsamples]

Remember that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson movie .. "InTERNS".. provided a clear picture of Google culture and represented the end of a COMEDY era.

[anant]

When the company uses dark patterns to wheedle out 50 cents more from you for YouTube prime or Google one subscription, then it is not Google, it is alphabet.

[gc]

Hi, your videos have been very helpful for me. Thank you!

[Andriisguitars-bq]

5:21 Such a policy cannot exist; it is illegal. If this is true, Google can be prosecuted by EEOC. The only thing they can do is to form representative candidate pools, but they cannot make hiring decisions solely based on the protected characteristics. They likely lowered standards to hire more people, not because of the diversity goals.