- Lots of arrogance but very little to justify it in performance
- Mostly come with sexist, racist, and misogynistic attitude
- Lots of biases for minority hires so your diversity initiatives will suffer
- Lots of biases for pay, work, and benefits
- They significantly effect the team culture through negative attitudes
- Questionable skills and experience
- They will question everything with unconstructive ways of working and the solutions they come up with are usually bookish, unproductive, inefficient, and uncreative
- They lack pragmatism and common sense
- They want to interview people in convoluted ways which have no context nor relevancy to the role just like how they did at Google
- They want to make your organization function like Google like a mirror to their past
- They drive a toxic culture, whatever was bad at Google they bring to every other organization or team
- They like to harass other employees
- They look at others in a team as lesser individuals and make the collective team feel miserable
- Why did they leave Google to come to work at your organization if Google was so great?
- They demand higher compensation packages just for working at Google, while their pay at Google was at best mediocre
- If they are part of the team that has to screen candidate applications they seem to be stuck on where the candidate got their degree and their racial backgrounds then end up interviewing them with racist stereotypes and biases
- They lack job relevant experience and skills because they didn't exactly do much at Google
- They don't want to be interviewed the same way as other candidates, treated like special candidates for some reason (maybe special candidates with disabilities?!)
- You have to flex your entire organizational handbook to meet their ridiculous expectations
- They lack basic work ethics, integrity, and fundamental sense of professionalism in the workplace
- Pretty much every ex-Googler talks and acts like they are still in school or university with emotional immaturity
- They act like spoiled and pampered brats in the workplace
- They lack basic skills of being able to think outside the box
- They tend to be unwilling to learn new things or new ways of doing things
- They tend to frustrate easily on tasks and require a lot of micromanagement
- They tend to be resistant and unwilling to listen to constructive feedback, at times repeat the same mistakes without learning from them by overcompensating with a false sense of overconfidence and lack of experience
- They tend to waste people's time by pontificating and procrastinating
- Habitually putting people down to artificially inflate their egos and prop themselves up
- They tend to be the biggest cynics of other employees in workplace especially if they are not ex-Googlers
- Sometimes they can act as saboteurs or moles out of pure jealousy and resentment
3 January 2025
Why ex-Googlers make the worst hires?
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