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I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- scrabble 13y agoThe article says this is what happens when she left Google. Not while she was there.
- rza 13y agoThat's what I meant. Having Google on your resume opens up doors many doors when you leave - it would be hard NOT to find offers or connections once people know you're an ex-Googler. I don't imagine this to be the case if you leave a lesser known or respected company. edit: oh, you were replying to a deleted comment
- johansch 13y agoI am kind of tired of reading stories of people who have left Google to launch fantastical enterprise X. And this particular story has been covered here before, I think.
- minimax 13y agoYou're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.
- harrytuttle 13y agoAntidote: I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)
- vidar 13y agoWould love to hear that story...
- harrytuttle 13y agoThere's not much to it. I started an online "virtual helpdesk" company. The first company I got in signed a contract and promptly went bust after I'd spend all the incoming cash on marketing to get other companies in. It plummeted into debt and I folded it. The sickening bit was to offset the debt, I sold the codebase to another company which did quite well out of it. They offered to hire me in but I couldn't face it.
- bgar 13y agoWhat is up with websites placing giant images above articles? The main content is the text, and while the image is nice, I want to be able to read, not look at the picture.
- svachalek 13y agoI don't know about this particular case but A-B tests often lead to this sort of thing (large images seem to really pull people in). We are moving into a world where software evolves into a niche. It doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoIt doesn't need a reason why, and doesn't care if we understand it; it just works. It also gets happily stuck and dies in a local optimum, being the simplicistic algorithm it is. We are moving (further) into a world where people stand for nothing, have no thoughts worth mentioning, and would do anything for money no matter how and where from; maybe we don't need to understand that, but it's pretty hard to unsee once you did.
- kingnight 13y agoThis one seems pointless, but a lot of time it adds context. Like in a magazine, readers connect with an image and then the digest of the text comes easier.
- jivid 13y agoDoes it bother anybody else that 'back' and 'up' are used as antonyms here?
- rza 13y agoWould she have the same success if she didn't have Google on her resume? I frequently think about jumping ship, but sometimes I wonder if it won't turn out as well as these kind of stories suggest.
- ef4 13y agoWhenever somebody says "why would you quit such an awesome job?", they have it backwards. The better the job, the easier it is to quit and take a risk on something new, because (1) you tend to have more savings and (2) you are demonstrably capable of get another good job if you need to.
- yanotherlogin 13y agoI'd like to ask why I get dumped to some shitty article I didn't ask for: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016456/this-note-taking-system-turns-you-into-an-efficiency-expert http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016456/this-note-taking-system-... I get a "301 Moved Permanently".. wtf So instead: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.fastcompany.com/3016938/dialed/why-i-left-google http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...