There’s a great Fake Steve Jobs post entitled Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving.
I think what makes it really funny is that it’s what everyone has already been thinking. Google has cultivated this image of an idyllic, do-no-evil haven for engineers who are much smarter than you, which makes for delicious schadenfreude watching their stock fall from $700 to $450, their ad click-throughs decelerate, and their high-level executives jump ship for Facebook and now EMI.
Even their own line-level uber-engineers have started to realize that it sucks working there too. And how couldn’t it ? If you’ve bought into the cult of Google and end up landing a job there, it has to be disappointment to show up and realize that it’s still a business with shareholders to keep happy, bugs to fix, and customers to keep happy. And it still has managers, and some of those managers suck. Who knew ? They live in the real world, too.
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