Google was an amazing company to work for for a software engineer, hands down. Now people complain that the hiring bar has been lowered, culture deteriorated, perks diluted, most candidates lowballed on salary or level, slow promos, and some of Googles big investments like Cloud Platform are lagging behind in the Cloud race. Looking at this trend, do you think Google will lose its overall brand value over the course of next 7 years? Vote and comment to share your thoughts.
đthey say google is the new Microsoft, Facebook is the new google, whatâs the new Facebook?
What they've built is difficult to replicate even for a large company like Microsoft. They pretty much had zero competition, even Microsoft voluntarily got out of the way during Google's hyper growth period (since Bill Gates didn't think much of internet). Even if Google stops innovating right now they can still sit around and watch the ad money flow in for a long time. Not to mention, with one simple UI or functional change of their Search or Android they have the power to eliminate hundreds of small companies in half a second and redirect hundreds of millions to their own pockets. Also, do you think these days Internet users all over the world will help you train your image search?
Lol "eliminate hundreds of..." is exactly what happened with Yelp (GMaps hijacking the restaurant app market share), although technically they haven't been eliminated yet
Yeah, Yelp has been the most vocal Google critic of Google (although to be fair they were way behind on their innovations until the restaurant platforms like doordash came into being like they didn't even have online ordering etc) But the examples are endless. Like Google flights/hotels taking on Expedia. Over the last few months, Google finance has added a lot of info incl. earnings history if you just enter the ticket symbol. And even more generally, they've started running their entity extraction algorithm on all webpages so if you search for a factual type answer like "how old is <a famous person>", you.get a straight answer on the Search page itself which means the website that you had to click into earlier isn't getting that traffic anymore. But Google is just fine because they can still show the ad with their search results and they don't have pay anything to that webpage anymore. They also just absorb the functionality of an Android app or a Chrome web app seemingly without any repurcussions. Like that Twilight app on Android that dims the screen. Google first pulled 'drawing over other apps' permissions from most apps, they said for security reasons. And now they've introduced a native dark mode/Grayscale/dark theme so pretty much twilight is done. It'll hang on for a year or two because of the prior users who've been using but everyone will forget after that. Its growth should already be zero by now.
Google is much more future-oriented than most companies (especially Amazon). Without all the âother betsâ Google would be dishing out overwhelmingly positive earnings reports. But itâs also partly why Google leads AI by miles. So if anything the future favors Google making many impressive âcomebacksâ with cool and useful AI-fueled products and potentially even reclaiming itâs undisputed heavyweight title.
Yeah Google's AI can't be beat right now.
Curious on why you feel Amazon is not future oriented. Company-wise, I feel Amazon is future oriented too, if not more than Google but at G level.
Amazon is the least present focused company of FAANG, happy to take loss leaders and actively avoiding quarterly profits.
Google is definitely more future focused. Look at their long term bets. Most of the them won't see a pay off until at least 10 years, and that's if they succeed. Self driving cars. Calico, slowing human aging. Many more.
Google has become another big corp and thus, the changes you've outlined. These changes are inevitable in order to maintain this scale. Google, however, is still an amazing company to work for and it will still have a dominant place on the global stage. But, you won't have the Google you had back 10 years ago. That Google is long gone.
Cisco and IBM are still huge companies, and Microsoft is the most valuable Company. How is that a loss of value? What even...
Not that I have a horse in this but the fact that "lose value completely" is Cisco or IBM seems dubious at best
Nobody wants to work for Cisco or IBM
True dat