TIL that head of Google search, Prabhakar, was leading Yahoo search and literally killed it before joining Google. How could someone allow a man with such a history become the head of Google search. This dude is literally a no-brain either following orders from others or making absurd and humiliating decisions and comments (such as “120 hrs a week”) https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/lJly5GJzoO #Google
Because he is from tamilnadu
And from same district as Sunder.
It’s politics, google leadership is deeply unserious ( see current ceo and Gemini fiasco)
It’s like a conglomerate of monkeys up there. I don’t know a single SVP who deserves that role. And don’t get me started on Subpar.
Always two sides to a story. Prabhakar is no Saint, but this mindless pile on the dude since yesterday makes no sense. Google is a fucking massive company with thousands of smartest people in their fields and well honed executives. If people are going to play Monday morning quarterback about decisions made 5 years ago, then they only reveal themselves to be clueless as to how things operate. It takes a fucking village. A bunch of people lost the battle of ideas 5 years back, and let's not give them martyrdom. If the ideas were so straightforward, then at the very least, they proved themselves to be incapable of running a large organization.
No one is asking him to be a Saint, yet he chooses to be a prick and makes all bad decisions harming Google search, while getting his salary 100x. I respect you as a human but I do think your requirement of someone being the head of Google search is lower than mine. And this yields to our different opinions:
If they were so obviously bad decisions, what were the other smart people in the room doing? You know how things work at Google... decisions are not taken in isolation. Imagine losing the battle of ideas to a guy who is 'destroying' Google search.
1) innovation is built on engineering talent, not moving jobs to india 2) you actually need to hire, pay people well, and make them appriciated, Google has enough of cash to hire the best engineering talent in the world, but they have decided to fuck it up. Even MSFT realizes this despite our peanuts, MSFT is hiring more in the US.
There is an article about this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Coasters, prepare to work 😉
He never led Yahoo Search, he led Yahoo Labs.
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Search is being replaced by chat GPT anyway, so it doesn't really matter, writing is on the wall.
This I asked Google and ChatGPT the same question and got two contradictory answers. After further digging, ChatGPT’s answer was more accurate. Starting to have less trust in Google search now.
I was being sarcastic 😭