I NEED TO GO TAKE A SHIT. so i'll make this quick;
A lot of people are finding my tweet about google to be out of order. I know. I figured, I would be a little kind to you all and explain. With a little logic, you will get it too.
1. Google has 60k software engineers. Same as the rest of the faang. For 90% of their devs, what do you think their Day in a Life Looks like? Working on cutting edge software? Fuck NO.
2. Google has multiple products in existence already. They are not taking risks. The only job at google is to maintain existing products and/or add features here and there once every 5 years (if you're lucky). They hire geniuses to maintain competitive edge, and not because the actual job requires a genius.
3. If you graduated from MIT, from Ghana, with all that access and benefits, the worst possible decision you can make is go work for google and join the already existing 60K engineers. You'll get lost in the chaff.
4. You will not be on the team that does the real work.
6. You will be spending your time doing redundant stuff, editing buttons, and documenting the hell out of them. Before you know, 10 years of your life has gone by. Well, with Lot of money. A little tiktok search will confirm this.
7. However, this is fine if you are optimising for Money. Nothing wrong with that. But if you are in your 20s, I think you are pretty retarded if you are optimising for money (cc:
@chamath ) and not taking as much risk as you can.
8. Now, I also do understand the young man. Just the classic textbook example of "success". I get it. Nothing wrong with that. I personally just respect people like
@pazunre more.
9. Ghana is a shit hole now. Most of our leaders have misplaced priorities. No wonder our brilliant minds in tech always bounce out. Only Fair.
10. But we can't give up. I might just fuck around and have to become PRESIDENT OF GHANA to get the country back on track and save us all. We need to make Ghana great to retain our talents.