I think the sheen is starting to wear off of working at Google. You're starting to hear people murmur about hyper-competition, cultlike behavior, and so on. Their hiring process is legendarily complex and baroque. At some point you're going to start keeping out qualified people, and end up not with smart people, but people who are willing to "play the game".
It's nice to have a competitive environment or whatever, but I'm just imagining that Google has more than its fair share of those type-A people who got 4.0 averages through grad school and for whom nothing has ever been hard. I.e. the assholes the rest of us love to hate.
I'd, uh, not want to work in an office full of them.
hmm....you have a point.......But Pixar is still awesome.....
I would still would like to try working at each place for like a month. Then see if i would still love it afterwords. Never know, u might end up with some really cool folks.
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It's nice to have a competitive environment or whatever, but I'm just imagining that Google has more than its fair share of those type-A people who got 4.0 averages through grad school and for whom nothing has ever been hard. I.e. the assholes the rest of us love to hate.
I'd, uh, not want to work in an office full of them.
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I would still would like to try working at each place for like a month. Then see if i would still love it afterwords. Never know, u might end up with some really cool folks.
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