Name: 我在 Google 上班這九年的精華不藏私教你！ (My Last Day at Google (after 9 years)
Uploaded: 2025-06-07T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 7 min 55 s

All right, it's my last day after nine years at Google.

好了，今天是我在谷歌工作九年後的最後一天。

I'm standing outside the office building right now.

It's gonna be my last free breakfast here unless I can bribe people to take me to breakfast.

這將是我在這裡吃的最後一頓免費早餐了，除非我能賄賂別人帶我去吃早餐。

Maybe I can create an AI agent that assigns my Googler friends to like specific slots so I have free food for the rest of my life.

也許我可以打造一個 AI 代理人，把我的 Googler 朋友們分配到特定的時段，這樣我就可以一輩子吃免費食物了。

Like, you know, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, huh?

比如，你知道的，早餐、午餐和晚餐，嗯？

Very few people know this, but I almost didn't make it past my first quarter at Google.

很少有人知道，我在谷歌的第一個季度差點就熬不過去了。

For context, I joined the sales team back in 2016.

我是在 2016 年加入銷售團隊的。

I was the youngest person on the team, and I was the only one with zero sales experience since I came from consulting, where my entire skillset consisted of making mediocre slides and saying stuff like.

我是團隊中最年輕的人，也是唯一一個沒有銷售經驗的人，因為我來自諮詢公司，在那裡我的全部技能就是製作平庸的幻燈片和說一些類似的話。

Absolutely, that's a very alluring, enthralling, riveting question you're asking there.

當然，你問的問題非常誘人，令人著迷，引人入勝。

And because Google had a very hands-off culture back then, I didn't receive much formal training.

由於谷歌當時的企業文化非常不干涉，所以我沒有接受太多正規訓練。

And this is the low point of my entire career, but whatever.

這是我整個職業生涯的谷底，不過無所謂了。

I failed the mock sales pitch all sales people have to go through three times in a row.

我沒能通過所有銷售人員都必須連續經歷三次的模擬推銷。

And as a result, when I became on-target, I developed this fear of calling clients, preferring to, you know, just email them instead.

結果，當我達到目標時，我開始害怕給客戶打電話，而是更喜歡給他們發電子郵件。

A salesperson who's scared of calling clients, that was where I was at.

一個害怕給客戶打電話的銷售人員，這就是我的處境。

I didn't think I was gonna make it past probation anyways, until a colleague said something that struck a chord in me.

我以為自己無論如何都過不了試用期，直到一位同事的一句話打動了我。

He said it in Chinese, but it roughly translates to don't punch with your left hand if you're right-handed.

他說的是中文，大致意思是說，如果你是右撇子，就不要用左手出拳。

基本上，發揮你的優勢，對嗎？

My youth and inexperience can actually be advantages.

我的年輕和缺乏經驗其實也是一種優勢。

I can work longer hours than anyone else and people forgive nooglers for making mistakes.

我可以比別人工作更長時間，人們也會原諒新手犯的錯誤。

So I thought, fuck it, I'm gonna go on for a quarter and see what happens.

所以我想，去他的，我就繼續做四分之一，看看會發生什麼。

I scheduled one-on-ones with everyone on the team to ask for advice.

我安排與團隊中的每個人進行一對一交流，徵求他們的建議。

I sometimes spent my own money to travel and shadow senior reps in their client visits.

我有時會自己花錢出差，跟隨高級代表拜訪客戶。

And I spent every single weekend that first quarter learning the Google Ads product.

第一個季度的每個週末，我都在學習谷歌廣告產品。

I was ranked the number one salesperson globally in the small business segment for one of the quarters and I was promoted in just eight months.

在其中一個季度裡，我被評為全球小型企業部門銷售人員第一名，僅用了八個月時間就獲得了晉升。

Two things I took away from that experience slash ordeal.

我從那次經歷中得到了兩點啟發。

First, even if you feel unqualified, you have strengths, use them.

首先，即使你覺得自己不合格，但你有長處，要利用它們。

Second, and this has been a core belief ever since that first quarter, everything is figureoutable.

其次，這也是自第一季度以來的核心理念：一切皆有可能。

It's hard to articulate just how humiliating it felt to be the worst performer on the team back then.

很難說清楚，當時作為隊裡表現最差的球員是多麼丟人。

I remember thinking the interviewers made a mistake,

我記得當時覺得面試官搞錯了，

But the upside was, for every professional challenge I faced since then, I would tell myself, this is nothing compared to those first three months when I felt like an absolute fucking loser.

但好的一面是，對於每一個職業挑戰，從那時起，我就告訴自己，與最初的三個月相比，這根本不算什麼。

I figured it out back then, I'm gonna figure this out now.

我當時想通了，現在也要想通。

And I think this mindset also gave me the courage to hand in my resignation last month, which is a great segue into why I quit, why I left.

我想這種心態也給了我上個月遞交辭呈的勇氣，這也是我為什麼辭職，為什麼離開的一個很好的切入點。

So it basically boiled down to three main reasons.

基本上可以歸結為三個主要原因。

One big pull factor and two small push factors.

一個大的拉動因素和兩個小的推動因素。

To give some context for the pull factor,

為拉動因素提供一些背景資訊，

I went through this odyssey plan exercise developed by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett of Stanford Business School, where you go through these three prompts.

斯坦福商學院的戴夫-埃文斯（Dave Evans）和比爾-伯內特（Bill Burnett）為我制定了奧德賽計劃。

Write out in detail what your life would look like five years from now if you continued down your current path.

詳細寫出如果你繼續走現在的路，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

Write out in detail what your life would look like five years from now if you took a completely different path.

詳細寫出如果你選擇一條完全不同的道路，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

Write out in detail what your life would look like five years from now if money, social obligations, and what people would think were irrelevant.

詳細寫出如果金錢、社會義務和人們的看法都無關緊要的話，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

I'll share Ali Abdaal's video about the odyssey plan in the description, but as I worked on the exercise, it became very clear, very quickly, that fulfillment for me comes from being an educator, from being able to teach at scale.

我將在描述中分享阿里-阿不都沙拉木關於奧德賽計劃的視頻，但在我進行練習的過程中，我很快就清楚地認識到，我的成就感來自於作為一名教育工作者，來自於能夠進行大規模的教學。

I've mentioned this in a few videos, but I actually have an album in Google Photos where I keep a lot of your positive comments.

我在一些影片中提到過這一點，但實際上我在谷歌照片中有一個相冊，裡面保存了很多你們的好評。

And you know, it's become a problem since I've run out of space so quickly and I gotta pay for more storage.

你知道，這已經成為一個問題，因為我的空間很快就用完了，我必須花錢購買更多的存儲空間。

The high, or joy, I feel when you share how my content has helped you find a job, understand AI better, or improve your workflow delivers so much more satisfaction than almost any achievement during my Google career, with the exception of those first three months.

當你分享我的內容如何幫助你找到工作、更好地理解 AI 或改進你的工作流程時，我所感受到的興奮或喜悅，比我在谷歌工作期間取得的幾乎任何成就都要讓我感到滿足，除了最初的三個月。

So yeah, the combination of me being able to do what I love, teach, and the attention,

所以是的，我可以做我喜歡的事，教書，再加上大家的關注，

I mean, the fulfillment it gives me, and the hopefully positive impact on your lives made pursuing this teaching path a no-brainer.

我的意思是，它給我帶來的成就感，以及希望對你們的生活產生的積極影響，讓我毫不猶豫地選擇了這條教學之路。

And I mean, worst case, if this whole YouTube thing fails and I lose everything, you probably know where I'm going with this.

我的意思是，最壞的情況是，如果整個 YouTube 的事情失敗了，我失去了一切，你可能知道我要去哪裡。

I always have the option to, you know, marry rich.

我總是可以選擇，你知道，嫁給有錢人。

I just didn't wanna play the corporate game anymore.

This problem is obviously not unique to Google, but it doesn't change the fact that office politics and networking start to matter a lot more than hard skills as you move up.

這個問題顯然不是谷歌獨有的，但這並不能改變這樣一個事實：隨著職位的升遷，辦公室政治和人際關係網絡開始變得比過硬的技能更重要。

For example, for my most recent promotion, finding the right stakeholder to say the right thing during my calibration meeting was more important than showcasing my achievements.

例如，在我最近的一次晉升中，找到合適的利益相關者在校準會議上說正確的話比展示我的成就更重要。

Again, this is not Google specific, and if anything, Google probably has one of the fairest processes in place out of all the big tech companies.

再說一次，這並不是谷歌特有的，如果有的話，谷歌可能是所有大型科技公司中擁有最公平流程的公司之一。

But it goes back to the previous lesson where with my low tolerance for bullshit and my tendency to make what some people might misconstrue as inappropriate jokes, staying in corporate would not be playing to my strengths.

但這又回到了上一課，我對廢話的容忍度很低，而且容易開一些別人可能會誤解為不恰當的玩笑，所以留在公司裡並不能發揮我的優勢。

The third reason, push factor number two, is a tactical consideration.

第三個原因，即推動因素之二，是戰術上的考慮。

I wanna continue giving my honest and unbiased opinions on different AI and productivity tools.

我想繼續就不同的 AI 和生產力工具發表真實、公正的意見。

And by leaving, I won't have any conflict of interest when I talk about Google Gemini and Google Workspace tools.

這樣，我在談論 Google Gemini 和 Google Workspace 工具時就不會有任何利益衝突。

For the record, some of you asked me this.

為了記錄在案，你們中有人問過我這個問題。

No one at Google has ever pressured me to speak positively about their products.

谷歌從來沒有人對我施壓，要我正面評價他們的產品。

I genuinely believe Google's AI models are the best in the world right now.

我真心相信，谷歌的 AI 模型是目前世界上最好的。

I'm totally not saying that in hopes that someone from Google's marketing team will reach out and sponsor me by clicking the link down below.

我這麼說完全不是希望谷歌行銷團隊的某個人會點下面的連結來贊助我。

I know there's this expectation for YouTubers to announce this big next step when they quit their full-time job.

我知道大家都期望 YouTubers 在辭去全職工作後宣佈他們的下一步計劃。

But I'll be honest with you, I wanna spend more time in the next few months rediscovering how to have fun and relax.

但我還是實話實說吧，在接下來的幾個月裡，我想花更多的時間重新發現如何享受快樂和放鬆。

I've been working 80, 90-hour weeks for the past five years, and it's taken a huge toll on my relationships.

過去五年，我每週工作 80 到 90 個小時，這對我的人際關係造成了巨大影響。

I've lost a lot of friends because I've prioritized work over them, and that's on me.

我失去了很多朋友，因為我把工作看得比他們更重要，這都是我的錯。

I wanna travel more since I developed this unhealthy bias against traveling because I didn't want to waste time on transit.

因為不想把時間浪費在交通上，我對旅行產生了不健康的偏見，所以我想更多地旅行。

I'm thinking of Switzerland or Iceland this year, so if you have any recommendations, let me know.

我想今年去瑞士或冰島，如果你有任何推薦，請告訴我。

I love Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, all the books from Barry Eisler.

我喜歡李-柴爾德的《傑克· 理查爾》系列，以及巴里-艾斯勒的所有作品。

I recently started Tom Wood's Victor series.

我最近開始看湯姆-伍德的維克多系列。

So again, any recommendations, drop them in the comments.

如果你有任何建議，請在評論中提出。

I'm gonna double down on evergreen educational content that cuts through all the noise and hype.

我將加倍努力，提供常青的教育內容，讓它們穿透一切喧囂和炒作。

There's so much BS out there right now, especially with all the AI stuff.

現在有太多亂七八糟的東西，尤其是 AI。

I'm gonna continue making content that makes a tangible impact on your life.

我會繼續製作能對你的生活產生切實影響的內容。

And finally, I wanna say something to the four people

最後，我想對這四個人說幾句話

I hold personally responsible for putting me through nine years of Google.

我個人要對我在谷歌九年的經歷負責。

To my classmate Akash, who referred me all those years ago, you're welcome for the referral bonus.

致敬多年前推薦我的同學 Akash，歡迎你獲得推薦獎金。

I'm so sorry for the 10,000 emails, follow-up emails, asking for updates regarding my application.

非常抱歉，我收到了上萬封電子郵件和後續郵件，詢問有關我申請的最新進展。

To my second interviewer, Wilson, you're one of the smartest people I know, so thank you for being my mentor and my friend all these years.

致敬我的第二位面試官威爾遜，你是我認識的最聰明的人之一，感謝你這麼多年來一直是我的良師益友。

To my third interviewer, Stella, your ability to always do the right thing when faced with difficult decisions has given me the courage to stick to my values, even when the going gets tough.

致敬我的第三位面試官斯特拉，你在面臨困難抉擇時總是能做出正確的決定，這給了我堅持自己價值觀的勇氣，即使是在困難的時候。