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I find myself agreeing with you on many things. I first noticed your username after the real-googler discussion and what you saw at Google is so similar to what
by anxx 13y ago
I find myself agreeing with you on many things. I first noticed your username after the real-googler discussion and what you saw at Google is so similar to what I saw in my job in a bank. Without external or positional prestige, there is little interesting work for even the bright young staff engineers.
- michaelochurch 13y agoValve figured it out: let people move around the company at will. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/dont-look-now-but-valve-just-humiliated-your-corporate-culture/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/dont-look-now... http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companies-open-allocation-is-your-only-real-option/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie... Anything else falls down, both because the interesting work gets hoarded and distributed as a political token, and because the best people find it easier (after 3-5 years at most) to leave then to get the work they want internally. Good companies are out there, but they tend to be slower growing. This ties in to my r/K-selection analysis of capitalism: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1es505/corporate_work_is_the_most_elaborate/ca3od3d http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1es505/corporate...