The Shifting Value of a Google Resume in the Eyes of VCs

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This is a two-panel meme that contrasts the perception of working at Google over a decade. The top text reads, 'VCs when you tell them you spent 4 years at google:'. The first panel, labeled '2014', shows a cheerful man in sunglasses enthusiastically throwing cash into the air, symbolizing easy funding and high regard. The second panel, labeled '2024', features a well-known reaction image of a group of people at a party staring at the viewer with skeptical, unimpressed, and judgmental expressions. The meme humorously illustrates the dramatic shift in how Venture Capitalists (VCs) view experience from big tech companies like Google. A decade ago, it was a golden ticket, implying elite talent. Now, it's often met with suspicion, suggesting the person might be too institutionalized, slow, or accustomed to perks to thrive in a lean startup environment

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick In 2014, a Google resume meant you could build a distributed system. In 2024, it means you know how to navigate a performance review system that's more complex than Kubernetes

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

In 2014, a Google resume meant you could build a distributed system. In 2024, it means you know how to navigate a performance review system that's more complex than Kubernetes
Anonymous

2014 VC: “Ex-Google? Here’s $10 M, go disrupt laundry.” 2024 VC, passing a red Solo cup: “Nice résumé - now show a path to profit that doesn’t need Borg, Spanner, or 30 on-call SREs.”
Anonymous

The real irony is that the 2024 VCs are probably using ChatGPT to evaluate your pitch deck while simultaneously questioning if you learned anything useful at the company that literally invented the transformer architecture that powers it
Anonymous

Ah yes, the Google tenure paradox: in 2014, mentioning your L4 promotion was basically a Series A term sheet. By 2024, VCs hear 'four years at Google' and immediately calculate how many other ex-Googlers are pitching the exact same ML-powered SaaS platform this week. It's like watching your stock options vest while your market differentiation divests. The real kicker? Those 2014 founders are now the skeptical VCs in the 2024 photo, having learned that 'scaled systems to billions of users' doesn't automatically translate to 'can bootstrap a startup with three engineers and a dream.' Welcome to the era where your Noogler badge is less 'golden ticket' and more 'participation trophy.'
Anonymous

2014: “Ex-Googler” auto-generated a term sheet; 2024: it just fires the invite_to_happy_hour webhook
Anonymous

In the ZIRP era, new ExGoogler() auto-initialized a TermSheet; in 2024 the constructor throws unless pmf() > 0 and your “AI” isn’t just a thin wrapper over someone else’s API
Anonymous

Google vet: 2014's instant Series A cheat code, 2024's mandatory checkbox before they grill your burn rate
@Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

elaborate
@lord_desecrator 2y

Money printer is closed now.
@G4_1h4 2y

Обьясните мем Гугл скатился ?
1. Deleted Account 2y
  
  Сейчас налетят ещё 50 русских челов и напишут "English please"
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  English please(not a ruski)
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  LMAO yes I will
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  English please
  
  @Agent1378 2y
  
  English please
  
  @KentoSenjo 2y
  
  Є кращий варіант)
  
  dev_meme 2y
  
  Please, stick with English 🙏
  
  @KentoSenjo 2y
  
  I don't mind, but I don't like it when others have the right to break the rules)
  
  dev_meme 2y
  
  Everyone once non-English is used is warned to restraint from usage of that language Rust and JS/TS is allowed here tho 🌚🌚🌚🌚
  
  @KentoSenjo 2y
  
  Lua?☠
  
  dev_meme 2y
  
  Only if you’re going to inject written code into some running process 💀 💀💀
  
  @Nefrace 2y
  
  package main import "core:fmt" main :: proc() { fmt.println("ok!") }
  
  @deadgnom32 2y
  
  i gonna use PHP
  
  @vsevolod_whatsapp 2y
  
  section .data msg db 'ok', 0 section .text global _start _start: ; write mov eax, 4 mov ebx, 1 mov ecx, msg mov edx, 2 int 0x80 ; exit mov eax, 1 xor ebx, ebx int 0x80
2. @sylfn 2y
  
  Please use English in this chat
@callofvoid0 2y

yes I read that and that is why I suffixed with not a ruski
1. dev_meme 2y
  
  How tf you read it then Ain’t you from Iran?
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  translation exists
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  and yes
Алексей 2y

?
Алексей 2y

explain pls
1. @anatoli26 2y
  
  I guess google messed so much with politics, vaccinations, etc. and was hiring/keeping the politically aligned employees with a lot of qualified people leaving it, that today google is mostly a bad word and a reaction: u were working there in 2021-24?? 😧 next!
@s2504s 2y

explanation squad pls
@Daler_XYZ 2y

Explain please
@G4_1h4 2y

Explain meme pls I didn't get the joke
@Kurikania 2y

What is VCs? Not a voice chat and neither version control system
1. dev_meme 2y
  
  Venture Capitalists Ladies and gentlemen’s with deep pockets filled with money of other people
  
  @Kurikania 2y
  
  Thanks a lot )))
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  bolshovic?
dev_meme 2y

Wtf is happening in the chat 🤣
@digital_insanity 2y

Stolen from https://t.me/profunctor_io ?
@Boobuh 2y

Everyone knows that russians are subhumans :)
@sylfn 2y

Bold of you to assume I'm a human
@hyena_stuff 2y

For me, it’s because Google has become the Big Bad. Fuck ‘em.

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