googlerx

I'm an engineer at google and this bit about hiring someone because of their genes is false.

All candidates must past the same hiring bar, no one gets extra points for "diversity". So no, I never wonder why a coworker was hired.

Googler here, can confirm. I work around 40 hours a week, sometimes more (as in 42 or 43, not 60) but more often less. Work-life balance is part of the culture.

Google is certainly not looking for "employees who blindly do what they're told", at least not for engineering roles.

> To me, it feels like people not getting the promotions they think they deserve is an extremely mundane problem.

Google management to this day claims that eligibility for promotion is based solely on whether or not an employee is consistently performing at the next level on a well defined job ladder. If they are, they're promoted.

The problem is not the lack of promotions. The problem is that introducing promotion quotas or limits directly conflicts with the merit-ONLY-based promotion system that management claims exists.