Google employees confess all the worst things about working at Google by Jim Edwards and Sam Colt on Sep 30, 2015, 8:59 AM Advertisement
 A job at Google. It's career heaven, right? How could a gig at the biggest, most ambitious tech company on the planet possibly be bad? Well, take a look at this Quora thread, which is being used by current and former Google employees to dish the dirt on working for the search giant. Turns out that working at Google isn't all free food and bike rides around campus. Take their complaints with a grain of salt. These are the complainers, after all. But we've heard many of these same things from our own sources ... SEE ALSO: How to see all the companies tracking you on Facebook — and block them They can hire the very best people — so *everyone* is overqualified.  "There are students from top 10 colleges who are providing tech support for Google's ads products, or manually taking down flagged content from YouTube, or writing basic code to A|B test the color of a button on a site."
There are too few "bozos."  "There are enough talented people that being talented won't guarantee you an inside track on good projects, because there are thousands of equally smart people ahead in the queue and equally underutilized, but there are just enough bozos that you have to prove that you're not one of them," said a former engineer.
Google staff are so outstanding that there's an internal joke about it.  "… I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht/set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like "was a GM at muti-national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets." and then they would erupt in laughter and clink their cigars & Scotch together in celebration. This, of course, is highly unlikely given neither of them would ever smoke a cigar or drink Scotch. Remainder is plausible."
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