It's hilarious how smug Googlers can't help but be.
Everything I've heard and seen (thanks to remote work I can work alongside them now) has shown me that Google's culture is fundamentally based on Googler egos. Their weirdness about org charts and levels really exemplifies it (org chart and level are obscured from you - contrast this with Amazon, for instance).
I don’t work for Google. I work for another BigTech company. I am also much older than the average tech bro (48) and I work remotely in a more business oriented tech area.
But how can you pay a bunch of 20 something’s 200K+ and have them around other equally entitled people and not expect some amount of smugness.
Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).
Everything I've heard and seen (thanks to remote work I can work alongside them now) has shown me that Google's culture is fundamentally based on Googler egos. Their weirdness about org charts and levels really exemplifies it (org chart and level are obscured from you - contrast this with Amazon, for instance).