Living the Good Life, Leaving Google Behind

Posted by kdawson on Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:09AM from the calling-in-rich dept.

inetsee writes with an article in the San Francisco Chronicle profiling seven early Googlers who have left the company, part of a cohort the article claims amounts to 100 out of the first 300 workers hired by Google. For these former employees, all the acclaimed perks of life at the Googleplex can't compete with calling the shots in their own lives. Google's chef is opening his own restaurant, Olana Khan has started a non-profit that makes micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, and Aydin Senkut has become an angel investor. Others are simply enjoying retirement, making things in the garage shop or skydiving in South Africa.

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Re:Do you want to work for Google? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-11 03:45 · Score: 5, Informative

That's funny, I work for Google and work exactly 40-hour weeks. Not all of those 40 hours are spent working, either. My manager doesn't expect any more out of me. I have quite a good life and walk my dog all the time.

Try not to generalize so much. You simply make a fool of yourself.