Google and Its Engineering Residency: Problem Solved or Is It?
June 24, 2021
I read “Google Drops Engineering Residency after Protests over Inequities.” That means unfair, right? Maybe discriminatory? Nope, more of the good old Google management method in action. Remarkable, but the Google is consistent. Controversy and glitches every which way but loose.
The write up states:
The Google residency, often referred to as “Eng Res,” has since 2014 given graduates from hundreds of schools a chance to work on different teams, receive training and prove themselves for a permanent job over the course of a year. It offered a cohort of peers for bonding, three former residents said. Residents were Google’s “most diverse pool” of software engineers and came “primarily from underrepresented groups,” according to a June 2020 presentation and an accompanying letter to management that one source said over 500 current and former residents signed. Compared with other software engineers, residents received the lowest possible pay for their employment level, a smaller year-end bonus and no stock, creating a compensation deficit “in the mid tens of thousands of dollars,” the presentation said. Nearly all residents converted to regular employees, according to the presentation. Many alumni years later have continued to feel the “negative effect” of their starting pay on their current salary, it said. Google said it worked to eliminate long-term disparities when hiring residents permanently.
Interesting. The protest thing seems to be one way to catch the attention of the president of the digital science club working overtime to deliver quantum supremacy.
Stephen E Arnold, June 24, 2021
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