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A very good insight into how Google seeks to recruit and retain talent, by far its largest asset. There are some sections that were revelatory (e.g. performance on brainteasers in interviews has no correlation with employee performance, impact of cash vs. non-cash bonuses) but others that should be quite obvious (employees performance differs so their pay should also).
Reading the book one gets the impression that Google is some sort of über-employer where employees all love their work, are treated fairly and paid extremely well. Yet turnover at Google for software engineers is average/slightly higher than average for the industry with software developers staying on average 2.5 years (see https://hackerlife.co/blog/tech-employees-turnover/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-CA). Maybe this is because Google has such an amazing culture it can hire and underpay talent until they eventually are lured away by higher paying rivals? In this case, maybe underpaying staff is a winning strategy for higher corporate profits. Or maybe it is because it has become more political as it has sprawled resulting in some employees getting trapped in dead end projects/teams? I don't know the answer. However it was a little nauseating to continually read about how amazing Google is over the course of 400 pages, when the outcomes for the employees are clearly not that awesome. If they were, they would stay.
Reading the book one gets the impression that Google is some sort of über-employer where employees all love their work, are treated fairly and paid extremely well. Yet turnover at Google for software engineers is average/slightly higher than average for the industry with software developers staying on average 2.5 years (see https://hackerlife.co/blog/tech-employees-turnover/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-CA). Maybe this is because Google has such an amazing culture it can hire and underpay talent until they eventually are lured away by higher paying rivals? In this case, maybe underpaying staff is a winning strategy for higher corporate profits. Or maybe it is because it has become more political as it has sprawled resulting in some employees getting trapped in dead end projects/teams? I don't know the answer. However it was a little nauseating to continually read about how amazing Google is over the course of 400 pages, when the outcomes for the employees are clearly not that awesome. If they were, they would stay.