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>>If you are unhappy with Google's corporate policies, try working for Bank of America. You will not complain as much :)

Comparative 'heavens' only work for so long. I don't work for Google. But I can tell you- 'Try working for <something that sucks more>, to know how <something that sucks less> is better', arguments often lose out with time.

No matter where you work at, you gradually experience 'Law of diminishing utility'. Because when you spend time at large corporates or any activity where big teams are involved or anything big, you get subjected to human side of things. Averaging, policies, policing and everything required to bring sanity will bug you.

Coming to Java and other technology stuff. I've realized that technical excellence, solving problems et al are not the goals of any manager. Even if that is a manager at Google. Most managers are just bothered about keeping their floor running, they just want a language like Java which has endless supply of people in the market, even if 90% of them are of mediocre quality. Managers just worry about maintaining the status quo until a paradigm change will force to them to change.

Leaders do great stuff, Not managers. Not even product managers, not your senior managers, not your VPs. None of them do great stuff. All they do is keep affairs running without chaos. And maintain the status quo which is x% growth of business with some metrics of quality, employee satisfaction and other everyday company metrics. This is all managers can ever do. No matter which company you will ever join.

So as long as you are an ordinary soldier under an ordinary manager. No matter which company you will ever work at, you will get frustrated with time.




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