Wednesday, November 6, 2013

What's the Worst Part About Working At Google?

Stephen Cohen's brilliantly sums it up:

We tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence. As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, you’ll work a 9-to-5. It’s probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. They’ll pay well. It’s relaxing. But what they are actually doing is paying you to accept a much lower intellectual growth rate. When you recognize that intelligence is compounding, the cost of that missing long-term compounding is enormous. They’re not giving you the best opportunity of your life. Then a scary thing can happen: You might realize one day that you’ve lost your competitive edge. You won’t be the best anymore. You won’t be able to fall in love with new stuff. Things are cushy where you are. You get complacent and stall.


Read the entire Quora thread - its good !!

So, if you ask me whether it's worth working at Google - yes, it is; you'll learn a lot; is it worth to stay there? - no, it is bad for your karma, you may become one of them.


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