This is for all the seasoned and new Googlers.
How was/is your initial few months at the company been like?
When did you stop calling yourself a Noogler?
And more importantly, how did you perform in your first ever review??
Thanks a lot, in need of these insights!!

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It’s been fantastic for me. Maybe I’m still in the honeymoon stage —just joined this year— but I really love it here.
Can’t really stop calling yourself a Noogler until you hit your first anniversary.
Manager’s feedback has been very positive. They said I onboarded very quickly and I’m already delivering above expectations. Excited for what’s to come in 2023.

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Thanks for the details. And congratulations on the strong start :)

First team was rough (cloud). This is before pandemic, so F2F made things slightly better. Spent ~2mon learning, and started taking deliverables.
People view you as noogler the entire first year, which is not a bad thing tbh, you get extra support and given extra attention /response sometimes.
It used to that your first review was “automatically” CME, meets expectation. I felt downleveled coming in, so started to push for higher ratings at the next cycle. (12mon in)

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What type of role are you in?

6 months here for me. It was so intense. I felt like my team just grinded me to the extreme. This led to some cool learnings but ultimately made me realize Google is not what I thought it would be. I don t see a career here. All this on top of the looming layoffs.

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What role are you in? Are layoffs confirmed?

Did you get the higher rating??

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