Take a close look at the teams. A friend of mine had several offers from teams at Google. The first team she choose sucked and she was ready to leave a month after she joined. After a chat with HR, she was transferred to her second choice and has been there for years.
Let the companies know you have multiple offers and that you wish to have one more additional meeting with your potential workmates.
The small midwestern town from which I hail is rotting. The residents could never afford the luxuries flowing here in the valley. They are angry. They are huge Trump supporters. They don't want handouts. They want jobs. They want to contribute. They don't want to leave their homes. They are stuck.
I don't plan on leaving but there are a few fears that make me think about it. These are: Not being taken as seriously as my male colleagues (by men and women). Worrying about being hired for the wrong reasons. Getting boring grunt work that deadens my brain. Not being asked by the team to join them at beer events. And I like beer.
A lot of these things I mention actually happened to me at a few software corporations where I worked early in my career.
My solution was to code my own products on the side. The products became very popular, made much more than I did at the corporations I worked for, so I started my own business.
In those early days before I left, I was starting to drink the coolaid that I deserved grunt work because I sucked, but that turned out not to be the case in the end.
"This document is mostly written from the perspective of Google’s Mountain View campus, I can’t speak about other offices or countries."
"Change is good (unstable)" vs
"Change is dangerous (stable)"
"Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things" thus "This leads to women generally having a harder time ... leading."
"some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the “God > humans > environment” hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change)"
"Thankfully, climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren’t on the right."
"the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8] and sex differences)."
"Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of humanities and social scientists learn left (about 95%)"
"Ironically, IQ tests were initially championed by the Left when meritocracy meant helping the victims of the aristocracy."
"males are biologically disposable and because women are generally more cooperative and areeable than men."
"Alienating conservatives is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness"
"empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases."
"Considering women spend more money than men and that salary represents how much the employees sacrifices (e.g. more hours, stress, and danger), we really need to rethink our stereotypes around power."
Whatever we do, it's important that we learn how to control the "ingredients" of our atmosphere. There are so many things that could go wrong with our atmosphere and result in mass extinction. Global warming, ice ages, massive volcanic eruptions, etc. If we can find a way to quickly filter out the crap and rebuild our atmosphere... well, this technology could be used for protecting our Earth and future pursuits in space.
I'm 99.9% certain these vehicles would be forced to fly over existing roads. And it's likely the final product would be autonomous to ensure no one could do a random fly over of your house.
I once worked for a monolith who decided to invent a new way of programming. They built something massive and ready to scale even larger. And then they discovered no one wanted the product.
I've worked on distributed teams where kids pop into conference calls to say hi. It actually does some good when everyone is getting pissed about some shitstorm or another. If a kid (or kitten) pops on the screen, everyone calms down and the shitstorm magically evaporates.
I don't know how they do it unless their partner is doing all of the parenting. I used to work crazy hours until our kid arrived. Now, I work 10 hours or less per day. My kid doesn't sleep, so this compounds the problem. He never goes to sleep until 10:30 pm, and always wakes up before the rest of us. He is young, though, and every year gets a little easier. I'm more productive this year than I was last year.
Work smart not hard. Automate everything you can automate. I do this and I routinely finish projects 30% faster than my peers. Another plus is that automation results in less human error.
Most of them went into the workforce when the Great recession hit.
The ability to write off a student loan as a bankruptcy was removed in 2005. While part of this law has been thrown out, many people are still stuck as indentured servants to the loan sharks.
Housing is insane... around here in the bay area, but from the older people I've chatted with, it was always a tough market. Now, if you moved to my hometown, you could get a beautiful home for $200k.
A great article. There is one thing the author got wrong. Pot IS addictive. My brother can't go more than 3 hours w/o smoking it. If he does, he starts to sweat like crazy. He once went an entire weekend without it and he had a very rough time.