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My anecdotal observation is that Google is currently experiencing a (slight) brain drain... Many highly qualified and experienced engineers have recently left.
by pcj-github 7y ago
My anecdotal observation is that Google is currently experiencing a (slight) brain drain... Many highly qualified and experienced engineers have recently left. I wonder how many 1x engineers it is going to take to maintain all that software when the 100x and 10x engineers are gone. Not a simple math problem.
- rmah 7y agoMaybe it's just me, but I have doubts that 10x or 100x engineers are leaving google because of the reasons outlined in the post.
- downerending 7y agoIt's a knife that cuts many ways. Personally I wouldn't take a position there in 2020. Not because of what they're working on--I'd be fine working for a defense contractor--but rather because I don't want to deal with ideological drama on a regular basis. Work is work. If I decide to save the world, I'll do it on my own time with my own earnings, and my employer will be none the wiser.
- Apocryphon 7y agoGoogle positioned themselves to be in the business of saving the world from the get-go: https://www.google.org https://www.google.org Founded in October 2005.