Ugh. Don't believe the hype
Ugh. Don't believe the hype
- Looks really good on a resume
- Great pay
- No sense of mission (last time I saw Google actively "focusing on users" was 2010)
- Little opportunity for career growth. The project you work on is the most important (only?) factor in promotion. And most projects/teams are dead ends
Focus on a mission and stick to it. Shifting from "more wood behind fewer arrows" to "mobile first" to "AI first" is action discussed as progress. Seriously, stop trying to vie for a promotion and just focus on the user, and all else will follow.
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