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Comment by taneq | Hacker News Reader

These responses seem kind of formulaic and bland. I don't know why but I expected something juicier - these are mostly just people realising they need to move on, for the same reasons most of us do.

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Google has this aura about it that makes it seem like the pinnacle of career accomplishment, at least for software engineers. There are plenty of starry-eyed college students who are astonished that people ever leave Google voluntarily (unless they are going to Facebook/Netflix/${UNICORN}).

I think they interviewed a biased sample: ex-googlers who want to promote themselves.

Are there other kinds?

(I mean, how many skilled, driven, ambitious people don't want to promote themselves?)

Agreed. I expected the reasons for leaving to be way more controversial. Most of them are basically just "I left to do something else". Only 2 of the people in that article left due to conflict, all the others just left for other jobs or hobbies.

It's a company with 10s of thousands of people. What did you expect?

>I expected something juicier

What does the quantity of employees have to do with the discussion?

The greater the sample size, the more room for outliers.

Also the smaller chance that a random sample will have outliers in it.

It's a big company. Big company things happen at big companies.

It sounds like they've been severely shortened to keep them "interesting", at the expense of most of the details.

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