Is Google the end game?

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Endgame is being able to live off passive income

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Google is a good place if want to settle down and focus on work life balance/care about job security. In general it’s a place to make a fair salary, work with great people, and enjoy your day-to-day (for the most part).

However, It’s also a difficult place to be if you have any financial or aspirational growth goals (particularly in the beginning of your career) because promotions take a really long time and pay isn’t significantly high when compared to peers. Additionally, the company moves painfully slow compared to everywhere else and is bogged down by bureaucracy—so much so that I used to joke with my colleagues that we could get more work done in congress.

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I got degree from harvard of the internet, aka uni of pheonix, will you guys hire me?

Guess I’m contrarian here: yes I’d be happy to have GOOG be my end game (ie I’d feel good working here till retirement).

I was a consultant, did well, but wanted better WLB. I came in to GOOG at L5 and am currently L6, early 30’s. I’m beginning to have a family and enjoy the WLB + benefits from the company. I’ll work for 25-30 more years and would be happy progressing to L8 (ideally by early 40s) and being a lower level GOOG exec through till retirement.

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What was your salary at L5 and what team did you work for?

No, it's too big and slow now and diluted with so much corporate BS, probably thanks to all the consultants and other legacy enterprise IT shops it hired. I'm already thinking about my exit except the economy is in the gutter so I'll just continue to play survivor for the time being.

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Thanks G2 for the perspective

Google is the middle game. Use it to then go wherever you want. The end game is leverage.

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I appreciate the hustle but making MD / VP is a very long game depending the level you're coming in at. It takes much longer to make MD at Google than making partner at McKinsey.

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No, I still have a boss and G is just a job like anywhere else. End game for my wife and I is FU money, basically a self sustaining real estate and business portfolio

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I see! Haha ok! Thanks G3

It was my next move until G froze hiring.

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Not sure if I have much of a future here

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I am surprised by the amount of no’s that I see. I will be a bit more optimistic and say it is a great place. Some people forget that not everyone has an entrepreneurial mindset and it s not everyone‘s aspiration in life to have their own company. Given the context of working in a large company, google is definitely one of the best. I also worked for deloitte, oracle and Microsoft for many years and google is by far the best.

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If google is the end game, you probably shall dream bigger

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Any suggestion? I was thinking of a VP/SVP/P level of Google

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Not necessarily but I get paid more for less stress and more benefits than consulting so no complaints.

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