Google engineer says Big Tech halo now hurts: startups reject him over 'too slow' stigma
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-31
A Google engineer's Blind post titled 'Google feels like career suicide' went viral: despite acing startup interviews, he was rejected because employers feared he couldn't adapt to a faster pace. He also cites Google's internal tooling (no k8s, ansible, terraform) hurting him in screenings that expect 8+ years with specific mainstream tech. He argues Google's 'slow' stigma may now be worse than Amazon's, and that AI labs are among the few still regularly hiring from Google.
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