Google Falls Short Of Total Employee Satisfaction
November 15, 2013
Google has created a name for itself as the dream IT employer. This can be attributed to its prominence, zero to little professional dress code, inspiring office design, etc. Blind praise from those not working there is what Google relies on to help its corporate image, but Business Insider dug up a Quora thread where current and former Google employees vent their frustrations. Check out the dirt in, “Google Employees Confess The Worst Things About Google.”
Many of the complaints from the Googlers make the search giant sound like a prestigious private school filled with rich brats. Case in point is that everyone who works there is the best of the best and immature hot air blocks out any of the chilling oxygen. Google likes to come off that it still maintains the atmosphere of being an “ultra cool” startup but that mentality faded away with AOL download discs. Middle management is afraid to break the status quo and mediocrity/mundane-ness is daily chore Poor temps are treated as inferiors and working remotely is a lost in the Internet dregs. Even worse is that creativity is stifled, because product and visual designed are ignored of engineering. Check out the list of abandoned Google projects over the past few years.
Here is the funniest and worst offense:
“ ‘In Zurich there is a quiet room where people go to relax, or take a nap. There are very nice looking fish tanks there and you can waste as much of your work time there, watching the fish do fishy things. There was a 100+ emails thread about removing the massage chairs from that room because some people allegedly were being kept from sleeping because the massage chairs were too noisy.’ “
I cannot even get my work to provide me a chair with proper lumbar support and Google Zurich has massage chairs and naptime. Millions of dollars flushed away in that sector. These observations prove that while Google may be doing state of the art work, they have fallen into the hole that most of corporate America is trying to get out of.
Whitney Grace, November 15, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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