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by John23832 912 days ago
The average tenure at Google has been widely reported for while now as roughly one year.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/19/whats-the-average-tenu...
3 comments
testbf 912 days ago
That explains why working for Google seems so common. Hmm interesting, that explains a lot about why former Google developers are shit employees.
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ren_engineer 911 days ago
because they were in a massive hiring spree at that time, if you hire 10s of thousands of people in a single year it's going to drive down your average tenure
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nielsole 912 days ago
s/average/median/g according to the linked source(cnbc)
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John23832 911 days ago
When you have an average that low (or far away from the median) you by definition have a extremely large number of 1 year or lower tenures.

The floor is 0. You can't have a negative tenure at a company.

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nielsole 911 days ago
What I meant to point out is that Stackoverflow quotes the source CNBC wrong (primary source linked to by CNBC is no longer available). It is the median that is that low. The average might be higher or lower than that number.
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