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FAQ on Leaving Google

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462 points mrled | 2 comments | 17 Jan 24 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throw_pm23 ◴[17 Jan 24 22:46 UTC] No.39034667[source]▶
A nice writeup but

"achieving really cool things in the [..] Ads [..] divisions"?

Come on, no need to fool anyone now that you are free.. There's nothing cool to be achieved in ads, unless you were working to dismantle the entire industry from the inside.

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1. cqqxo4zV46cp ◴[17 Jan 24 23:16 UTC] No.39034992[source]▶
Some people can be won over by the technical minutiae of a problem alone, regardless of what problem it actually sets out to solve.

Personally I can’t remotely relate to that.

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2. Ocerge ◴[17 Jan 24 23:25 UTC] No.39035102[source]▶
I spent almost the entire first decade of my career being uncomfortable at how...unenthused? I was to solve business problems. I now have landed on this; technical aspects of a problem aren't enough for me to give a shit about what I do at work. It's a means to an end. My current role has interesting technical problems but the product means nothing to me, I think I'm going to take a hefty paycut for my next role if only to just have some sort of emotional investment in my work.