Why I Don’t Blog About Work
There are several reasons I don’t blog about work but reading some about Mark Jen’s short stay at Google is one of them. I changed jobs on September 1st of this year and yet I have yet to mention it (other than my reference to writing resignation letters).
Perhaps I am a little too willing to avoid talking about work. There has to be a balance since work is so much a part of our lives. We can’t avoid talking about it altogether. But obviously Mark’s (unofficial copies) posts in January of this year went too far:
lastly, google demands employees that are 90th percentile material, so what’s with the 50th percentile compensation? the packages would’ve been decent when the company was pre-IPO, but let’s be honest here… a stock option with a strike price of $188 just doesn’t have the same value as the ones of yesteryear.
That’s obviously going too far. I wouldn’t have imagined providing stock option strike price in my blog. Geez. That’s over the top. But really, just the sentence before that was about as bad. It was a direct assault on Google in reference to their sallaries. Mark indicates that he has learned his lesson and hopefully it serves as a good reminder for others.
November 15th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Hi ScW - Stock option strike pricing is readily publicly available (it’s granted at the market price on the date of hire). I guess people can interpret the compensation remark in different ways, but regardless, the truth is that they underpay their Associate Product Managers…
Good post though; I wonder if I’ll be the last high-profile blog firing