Quitting my $300,000 Google job for a 0 User app

Alexander Nguyen
3 min readMay 15, 2024

It wasn’t worth it.

Introduction

In 2023, I joined Google as a software engineer and made a total compensation close to $300,000.

It was an amazing experience filled with free food and learning opportunities. But over the year the excitement died down and everyday started to feel the same.

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Alexander Nguyen

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