Big scale and great people, but still a big company
Big scale and great people, but still a big company
Amazing tech. Probably the only place you can reliably not deal with unreplicated infra. Pushback on engineering is legit and regularly practiced, almost to a fault. Worked with some of the smartest people on Earth – the smartest I've ever met. Just ridiculously huge scale. SRE culture is strong if you are in the right places.
It may be a great one, but it is a big company now. That bothers some. Big company means very different experiences depending on where you work. Don't take any one review as gospel. Lots of politics and some infighting. Successful leaders know how to manipulate people, but not in a bad way.
I loved almost all of you, and I'll never forget the ones I worked closely with. Ten great years of my career were well spent.
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