Name: Why I left my job at Google (as a software engineer)
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:46:06.000Z
Duration: 11 min 6 s
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Hi and welcome back to another episode of The Tech Lead.

Future simple

it will be happily ever after from there on now.

it's kind of the life-long dream for a lot of people

But that's not actually how it plays out in reality

and you may be surprised to know that the average tenure

of a Google engineer is like 3.2 years only

Now, I was working as a software engineer tech lead

and you know, it was a six-figure salary,

very nice benefits, free food everywhere,

free drinks, good parties, occasional trips,

I would be one of those people who would just go like Costco

And you know, I was just hungry and starving basically,

And after Google, that kind of changed me a little bit.

as many free samples as I wanted at Google

I couldn't understand why anyone would ever want

Like, I had worked so hard to get into Google

I had been applying to try to get in for many years and

I had failed the interview process multiple times actually,

I remember the interviewers even telling me, wow,

because our records show that you just keep applying

and I was like, yeah, I just really wanna get in.

why anybody would ever want to leave the company.

And they also allow you to switch teams too,

You could even switch to another location

So they had you covered on all sorts of areas

and I think for that reason the tenure is a

little bit longer there than other places

and it's a great company overall to work for.

But throughout my time I did see people on my team leave.

And I can tell you a few of their stories like, one guy had

basically gotten into Google right after college

and he just worked for years at the company after that

and fulfill his dreams of going to like Tahiti

And he had money, he had youth and he just wanted to go out

Like, I honestly thought that was a little silly

because I had just finished traveling myself

and I was a little disillusioned by travel.

I didn't really think it was so cool of a thing anymore.

to just, basically, I knew that he would be back.

You don't really need that much time to travel.

Like, you think that you can travel for years and years

but in reality, after about two to four weeks of traveling

you're basically done, like you're exhausted

And I think that in order to get even a few months to go out

and travel you may need to quit your job anyway.

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