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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 18:35:25 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

   Not a Google-specifc problem, I know people who have left several other big tech companies for "too hard to get a promotion" reasons.

   Also worth noting: at massive companies, the part of the company you work on can make a big difference. Even if the processes are the same as documented, they'll differ in practice.

   I really, really don't like perverse incentives that lead to things like "promotion driven development".

   The alternative is job hopping for promotions, which is a drain on institutional knowledge.

   At the same time, "whether or not your manager likes you" is also a shitty way to decide if someone gets promoted, because bias, deliberate or not.

   https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

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     Merospit (merospit@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 19:38:19 JST Merospit

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     @ryanc Working on cleanup tasks that improve stability and correctness is the reason I switch companies to get promotions.

     I can describe exactly the same work in an interview and it is accepted.

     But... it means worse than 0 for promotion because promotion committees think that the missing activity after their process discounts improvements is evidence of low performance.