So people just take whatever is offered. Because, there are tens of thousands of people applying for these jobs. Most of them are likely to better than you and they didn't crack all competitive coding style interview to land a job like you did. So people just find it hard to turn down the offer and take it.
It's only later do they realized they are not building the next search engine. Nor building the next gen e-commerce platform, but building Jsons and posting to dataservices. By then you are conditioned to free food and you are not comparing your salary with people outside but inside.
Its always hard to admit you didn't negotiate well or fell for the marketing appeal of the company. Its easy to find conspiracies and accuse others of malice. The later story is more appealing, makes you a victim and makes the other side look bad.
I don't speak for everyone obviously but the reason I took the offer is that it will still >50% what I was making previously. I didn't bother looking into how much other people make.
> It's only later do they realized they are not building the next search engine. Nor building the next gen e-commerce platform, but building Jsons and posting to dataservices. By then you are conditioned to free food and you are not comparing your salary with people outside but inside.
Somehow I feel you have a bone to pick? I've been on 3 different teams and this has not been my experience at all.
People at Google seem to be just like people at other companies. They're happy they have a good job but look forward to retirement.
>>People at Google seem to be just like people at other companies. They're happy they have a good job but look forward to retirement.
Not sure what's your point here. The whole reason this discussion seems to be happening is because a segment of people think that is not true.
If that is true in your case, why would you even argue? It does not even apply to you.
