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Googler... ex-Googler

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1071 points namukang | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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whiplash451 ◴[14 Apr 25 06:53 UTC] No.43678710[source]▶
« Relationships that took me years to cultivate… mostly going to be gone too »

Why? What prevents you from spending time with your ex-colleagues?

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1. bsimpson ◴[14 Apr 25 16:05 UTC] No.43682821[source]▶
A potentially unique feature of Google (at least pre-pandemic/McKinsey) is that it cultivated communities of people in a particular discipline despite being spread across the world.

When I first met Adam, we were both UX Engineers. We'd all gather in NYC in the spring and in the Bay Area in the fall for internal conferences. Adam lives in Seattle. There are plenty of people who adore him who aren't geographically close enough to meet for the proverbial beer. I suspect that's also true for the connections he made outside of Google.