Talk about Google
While searching for some background information about the pros and cons of Google Web Toolkit (the German social network “StudiVZ” wants to use it now, because they think it’s cool), I came across lots of blogs of ex-Googlers. It feels like every employee that quits, writes at least 3 posts about it and places a prominent link on their home page – and then thousands of news portals are quoting it. Just google for “ex google employee”. You’ll get almost 27 million hits! If you search for “google rejected interview” you’ll only get about 9 million hits. When telling my friends what I observe, they sometimes wonder why they’ve never been contacted by a Google recruiter, which is another form of talking about Google.
What I want to say is: As strange as it seems how inferior people feel after they leave Google, get rejected or not even contacted by Google – at least people respect this company a lot and it would be way worse (from a PR standpoint), if nobody talks about them.
Anyhow: Using the GWT to build cool apps (not just intranet portals) doesn’t seem to be fun and it is a good reason to look for a job outside of Google. JavaScriptMVC is so much better! 
