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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: Dealing with the Seven Year Itch, Working at Microsoft and a few thoughts on the Google Hiring Process
TechBlog: Linkpost | 1.18.2009
Google Blogoscoped: Ex-Google Employees Discuss Why They Quit
The Open Road: Ex-employees suggest that Google is human, after all
L.A. Times Tech Blog: Around the Web 1.19.09: Inauguration security, Downadup virus, YouTube downloads, ghost hunts online
Dealing with the Seven Year Itch, Working at Microsoft and a few thoughts on the Google Hiring Process
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... I went through my seven year itch period about two years ago. I had always planned
for my career at Microsoft to be short since I've never considered myself to be a
big company person. Around that time, I looked around at a couple of places both within
and outside Microsoft. I had some surprisingly good hiring experiences and some that
were surprisingly bad (as bad as this
thread makes the Google hiring process seem, trust me it is worse than that) then
came away with a surprising conclusion. The best place to build the kind of ...
Linkpost | 1.18.2009
TechBlog —
... - CNN.com hopes to take advantage of the fact that many people will be watching the inauguration from their work PCs on Tuesday. • Why Google Employees Quit - Interesting discussion thread by Googlers who left the company. • ...
Ex-Google Employees Discuss Why They Quit
Google Blogoscoped —
... TechCrunch was forwarded a discussion from a private group Google set up to ask former employees just why they left Google. The discussion contains a variety of views and opinion. For instance, one employee called Laurent wrote the following in May 2008 (when reading the thread it’s worth keeping in mind that ex-employees naturally aren’t a representative sample): ...
Ex-employees suggest that Google is human, after all
The Open Road —
... TechCrunch has compiled a list of ex-Googlers' complaints (and sometimes praise) against the company. Considering the source, it's perhaps not surprising that not every (ex) Google employee loves her alma mater, but the criticism does suggest that working at Google is not necessarily like working for the Magic Kingdom.... ...
Around the Web 1.19.09: Inauguration security, Downadup virus, YouTube downloads, ghost hunts online
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... PaidContent.org
-- President George W. Bush leaves behind a mixed legacy on technology issues. Some defining decisions by his administration: supporting warrantless wiretaps, settling the Microsoft antitrust case and opposing Internet taxes. CNet
-- Wall Street could see EBay's first quarterly revenue decline in a decade. Digital Daily
-- Former Google employees sound off on why they quit. TechCrunch
-- Go ghost hunting, with your Web browser. ...
Even Google Isn't Great For All Employees
Google Watch —
... TechCrunch got a hold of an e-mail thread from a private Google Group inviting former Googlers to vent on why they left the world's biggest search and Web services company. ...
First Bytes: Obama, Google, and Comcast
Tech Observer —
Mainstream media partners with citizen journalists. [WSJ] Working at Google seems to be just as bureaucratic and low-paying as anywhere else. [TechCrunch] Wired wonders whether Obama can keep his tech-friendly approach going as he enters the White House. [Wired] FCC is looking into Comcast's network management practices, again, this time when it comes to VoIP. [Ars Technica] Related Links F.C.C. Investigating Cable Pricing Practices Group Wants ISPs to Come Clean on Traffic First Bytes: Cuil, ...
Industry Moves: Steven Horowitz Leaves Android For Coupons
mocoNews —
... . Although there's been a bit around lately about why some disgruntled people leave Google (TechCrunch has a thread up), in this case it's probably more about Android refocusing from developing the operating system to porting it to different devices, which may interest Horowitz less. ...
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Valleywag —
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees.
That's according to Peter Norvig (pictured), Google's director of research, former Google director of search quality and former head of the Computational Sciences division at the NASA Ames research center. Here's what Norvig tells Peter Seibel in a Q&A; in the new book ...
