Adaptation of new employees in Google Organization

And in this environment of endless work, amazing rewards, big money and incredible people, you once catch yourself thinking that you have been eating only in Google’s cafeteria for several years, talking only to Googleers, wearing only Google-branded Google shade, talking to Google acronyms, writing letters about Google from the Google-background and generally forgot what it is to be independent of the “big G”. And the whole environment reinforces you in the thought that wanting something else is the height of insanity.An outsider will look at you and say, “Wow, poor spoiled googler.” Here you get everything you ever wanted from life, but at the cost of what is most important - your energy and time. It happens in other companies, but Google is different because you don’t catch it, as it does with you. ”Katie Levinson, ex-Google developer: “We were paid for inventing some crazy innovative things or completing what we already have with some kind of heavy metrics. This led to anonymous creative nightmares, often built on abandoned platforms that no one else did. We had four official javascript libraries for internal use. Why so much? Because the author of an innovative javascript library could count on promotion!You could either rewrite the entire system from scratch, or get a premium for adding one hundred years of unnecessary metrics to this quarter. What would you prefer? Any improvement that did not rely on some complicated metric was considered a disrespectful waste of time. Usability? The number of bugs? Nobody cares. If you can't measure it, nobody cares.People think that if you work at Google, you have to tell how everything is perfect there. And they are very surprised and ask how you could get out of there! They do not want to hear anything other than “how lucky I was to get a place”, “how glad I am, how glad I am” and what you want more than anything else to stay here forever. If you left the company, and you see in it something other than a rainbow and unicorns, absolutely everything, from mom to the taxi driver, needs an explanation. It seems to me that this is a marketing campaign in which they say that the Googlers have everything they can dream of, and that they are working on products that are changing the world. In fact, their skills are not so incredible and quite common for any company of this size in Silicon Valley.I watched my colleagues get weird, addicted to Google. In fact, they gradually lost the chance to ever get a job somewhere else. And at some point I began to think, and whether the same fate would befall me. ”Kival Desai, ex-director of product development at Google: “We would have to solve difficult problems. If you finish Stanford and take you to Google, you should work from 9 to 5. In fact, it’s more like 11 to 3 when it comes to really hard work. They pay well. It's relaxing. But in reality they are paying for the fact that you accept the much lower level of intellectual development that you receive here than you expected.The truth is that in reality, Google does not give you the best chance in life! Then the terrible happens: once you realize that you have lost your competitive advantage. You are no longer the best of the best. You do not strive for more. Everything in your life is very easy, you are full and satisfied. ”Anonymous, ex-Google employee: “In my opinion, one of the biggest problems of Google is the oversupply of really brilliant people. When I left, my reports were brilliant. My colleagues were brilliant. My boss and my boss's boss were brilliant. But I left, because my work has ceased to be a challenge for me. I worked on a problem that I could solve for two quarters. My expectations of getting a job in some really cool and challenging project were dragged out a lot. I began to degrade. I was miserable. So a year ago I got out of there.My colleagues and I often joked, imagining how Larry and Sergey go to sea on their yachts, moor them next to each other, sit in expensive chairs that they undoubtedly have on yachts, pour themselves scotch, smoke expensive cigars and look at photos of googles with such small tags like “was the general director of a multinational telecom corporation, got an MBA at Harvard, and today he works in technical support for Orkut”. And then they enter in an uncontrolled laughter attack, extinguish cigars in scotch and clink glasses. Of course, this could never be, because they do not smoke or drink. And yet, everything else is plausible. "The schedule of the company's employees is strictly not fixed, only the norm of eight working hours is observed. Engineers often work with colleagues from other offices around the world, because of necessity they come late and do most of the work at night.Each employee can use 20% of working time on their own projects. They should be on a professional level, but may not be related to direct duties. For example, this is how the mail service Gmail appeared.All new employees are usually sent to a training in Dublin, where they tell about the corporate culture of the company. According to the staff, she is cool, but you need to get used to it. There is no formal subordination in the company - everyone necessarily turns to each other on “you” and by name. There is no working dress code - you can even come in slippers, barefoot, but common sense serves as a restriction.In Google, it is customary to share knowledge with colleagues, for this there is a googler to googler system. Every Friday, employees gather at TGIF - informal Friday meetings, where they eat and chat over a glass of wine or beer. 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