Living it but wish I had a real office
Living it but wish I had a real office
People think better of you if you work at Google.
The people you work with are really, really smart, because Google sets the bar for hiring so high.
There's free breakfast, lunch, and dinner – and it's good.
The yearly bonus tends to be even more than the percentage in the offer letter.
We're stuck in cubicles.
Before Google, I worked at Microsoft, and at MSFT, everyone gets their own office, or at least, every engineer did.
The stock price is variable. So, if you join and the stock's at $700, and then the stock goes down to $500, you may end up resenting the people who just got hired and have an option strike price $200 lower than you.
Allow employees to reprice their options to where they would be if they were to quit and get re-hired the next day.
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