[toomuchtodo]

> Google isn't special. They're just a well known consumer brand, and all that marketing is what's got into people's brains. Coke is just sugar water, it doesn't make you cool. It just puts fructose corn syrup into your stomach.

It takes you a while to get to this mindset as a technology worker. Everyone's motivation is different though.

I'm 31, have 13 years of experience, and keep getting rejected by SpaceX for a Linux Admin job at launch operations Cape Canaveral. Yes, I'm overqualified. Yes, I'd be taking an enormous paycut. But I want to help send rockets to Mars damn it.

It's not always about the money, nor about the work. Sometimes, you're simply irrational about it.

[shaneofalltrad]

I believe they want to create this atmosphere if Google being hard to get in, and hopefully it will make the smart people feel prestigious if they do get in. Psychology 101. I would not be surprised if they targeted him because he was an active blogger, and would get this out to the world. Just think about it, our community is doing well because we are an open community working together online and what better way to control this group than injecting persuasion into the community.

Don't get me wrong, I would likely work for Google if I had the opportunity, but I would go anti-google if they did this to me.

[nawitus]

There's nothing irrational about that. Rationality is about maximizing your utility function. If you care about sending rockets to Mars, then it can indeed be rational to take a paycut.

[toomuchtodo]

Thank you!

[noir_lord]

If I was financially independent I'd work for SpaceX for free.

They build rockets!.

I'm not remotely in their league though as a programmer.

I build web apps.