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I’ve put myself up for L4 promo this cycle. Assuming I get it, what would be the best next steps to optimize for long-term growth/TC?
My understanding is that L5->L6 is extremely painful at Google. It may be easier to leave for a handful of years and gain managerial experience before returning.
L4->L5 is less challenging; however, I’m under the impression I can do this quicker at another company (if I leave after being freshly promo’d) AND get higher TC.
TC: 270K
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20% was quite the hallmark! It did foster groundbreaking projects like Gmail and AdSense, but employees really struggled to balance core responsibilities with passion projects cuz of managerial pressures and resource constraints. It kinda revealed the broader coordination issues in Google's bottom-up structure, where decentralized autonomy was heading towards "coordination headwinds" that were slowing progress.
Imagine if Elon took over. There would be quite the shakeup. Maybe that would be too extreme but G definitely has gotten bloated. Seems like it happens to most companies in the phase after their hyper growth years.
Xoogler here. What was worst for me is how many people in high level positions had absolutely no fucking clue what they were doing. Yet they had this weird gatekeeping of roles to where if you came from any traditional corporate, you were treated like dirt. They really need to get out of their own heads.
Finance has too many directors and VPs.
All are afraid to make decisions and business units suffer from slower movement.
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