Google pioneered employee care. The hardest part was getting in and life was set after that. All you needed was to focus on work without the pressure of deadlines and office politics. Getting it right was more important than getting it fast. Now, it’s not even in top 20 if you’re a good engineer. It became the same evil it was planning to destroy with all its productivity sprint, blood on the streets, office politics, slower than snail promo velocity. When did things start to change significantly? Is it since GCP was created? Is it Pichai’s bad management or he is just Larry Page’s scapegoat? Who killed the googleyness?
When push comes to shove.. every company will do that. Just saying. Nothing to do with SP
This might be unrelated to the post, but really which companies are the top 20 now?
When you let politics/wokeness creep into work, you spend more time dealing with media and HR than focusing on building new products.
Okay, databreach
You don't think it has to do with the drastically different macroeconomic environment impacting every company? It's just cuz of wokeness? Lmfao 🤣
The day Larry and Sergey personally stopped approving new hires. That may have created a sense of accountability in ensuring we hire the best. Now hiring is heavily decentralized and just incentivizes empire building. As a founder if you care about certain aspects of the culture, you do something that works even in your absence. I think Larry failed there.
I mean, that was like 2001. We struggled to get headcount back then because each team was given 1/3 of what we asked for (and the board approved) to make sure every hire was super impactful. I have a draft medium article I never finished about the times back then. Larry and Sergey bucks (you had to turn them in to make a hire) etc.
Larry signed off on all new hires thru 2006 at least.
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Why are we celebrating rest and vest? I want to build cool things, not rest on my laurels
Come to apple
You don’t even work at google lol. Everything is great, except for GCP.
Makes no sense. What about MS?
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