Fearless Feedback! Tech Workers Dish Dirt on Their Employers
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Associate Product Manager (past employee — 2007):
Google is like Disneyland for geeks. It’s an incredibly great place to work: the food, the people, the projects, the opportunities…
Software Engineer II (current employee):
Google has extremely uneven career development support and bottom level management… Also, Google does a generally poor job of recognizing technically unglamorous though needed contributions.
Technical Program Manager (current employee):
Google rewards their top performers well. Base salary tends to run at around the 50th percentile in the industry, but annual bonuses the last few years have been ~25% of salary (it’s not uncommon for above average performers to receive bonuses of 25-35% of salary).
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Look at EBay’s CEO Disapproval rating…almost half. Big ‘ouch!’.
I can’t decide if Steve Jobs at 91% is amazing or horrendous… The only people with approval numbers that “high” are third-world dictators.
Why can’t people just drink the Donahoe kool-aid and go along with all his and his management team’s lies.
Fearless? Seriously? These people are anonymous. Fearless would be to 1. go to the CEO and give him/ her this feedback then 2. offer to fix things and indeed do your best to fix things, failing which 3. quit. Oh wait, the economy is in the doldrums, isn’t it? The fearless are afraid to lose their jobs.
No, quite the contrary, savvy tech workers dish dirt to their own company and create an opportunity for thelmselves. No one will get a promotion or raise in these times sitting at their desk doing the same job. You must upsell yourself, dishing dirt can work to you advantage if done correctly.
Now you have some good stocks to short ;-)