I see lots of Googlers recently trashing their own company. Can't really tell if they're just trolling or not. Meanwhile, on almost every post, Google wins. So is Google really declining or it's just Googlers like to troll?
Besides g-suite and search what has google done in the last decade?
Time to change the leadership? Google has enough talents to return back strong and fast just leadership is lacking I guess?
Lose to Facebook in the social networking space and Amazon in cloud computing and smart speaker markets. Google is basically always the bridesmaid at this point. We’ll see if their autonomous driving changes that.
Stock price has been disappointing but it's still a really innovative company
The focus on stock price is what’s killing the company. Instead of building cool products & focusing on the users, decisions are made by MBA folks who try to maximize profitability. To me, there are clear differences between the google of 10 years ago and today. Search has more ads than ever, YouTube is cramming ads in people’s faces, and the company is killing useful products and features that don’t bring in revenue. The company should focus more on caring about the user experience & building great products rather than the stock price.
If something is not bringing revenue (either directly or indirectly), it’s called useless
As a outsider, I always see good things about Google yet. Probably the best tech company who give freedom to explore and fail (and learn). To really answer your question one has to have worked at Google decade+ time.
There is a difference between the company’s success and employee satisfaction. As an example, I would happily take a $1M TC from a company that does nothing and gives me everything. I would never want to work for a company that squeezes me to the limit and gives me peanuts. As a Google employee I am actually very happy. As per the company’s financial success, not that much
Yeah as a techy person, I would care about the stuff I get to do and how I get to do it, and how much I am paid for it.
I joined Google recently. Every team I interacted with is still aware of Google's mission to organise world information and make it universally accessible and useful. And now they're focussing to do it in a way which is inclusive for everyone and avoiding bias. And there are good people here - not only intelligent but humble as well. Interview process and cultural trainings make sure this remains. There's still much openness - I now wish it were less because of daily leaks happening about google. Seeing the above three points - Google is not declining. Googlers are very vocal about anything they feel is dangerous to our values so I don't see anything going wrong in near time.. It's just the stock decline and our CEO's handling in Congress bashing which has made us sad a little. We know it's a short term loss and CEO is nice and humble and couldn't cope and we'll anyday prefer CEO with these qualities.
how does the koolaid taste?
To your response I will add some things I hate: 1. Launch process is too complicated - too many teams and approvals involved. I think I will register a new company sooner than get some feature launched. 2. Privacy and security is referenced almost in every article I read. Now I am pretty scared to do anything. I think hard for 5 mins before doing to avoid violating any of their several policies. I won't be able to access anything anyways but I would be flagged, tried and fired. 3. Bug reports - too many bug reports. Haven't received any timeline for the bugs I reported. 4. Distributed teams - need to work across timezones even for non-work related requests. So much delay
Google never gave a shit about business haha, many top MBA professors always use google as an example of how you SHOULDNT run a company. That being said, it is a monopoly, figured out how to plant a money tree (ads), and can do cool things even if those cool things aren’t translatable into near future market shares and stock gains. I’d say it’ll be chillin for another decade
Google may not be a company with great business moves but when your products are that amazing and so woven into everybody's daily lives it doesn't even matter
The monopoly we have if it is a monopoly technically isn’t really even intentional. People like papers and yelp get upset about snippets being shown “stealing content” and internally we are really just trying to make sure users can get access to good information faster. I thought it was ironic hearing congressmen calling Google a walled garden, since there are multiple internal documents calling walled gardens existential threats to googles success and talking about a way to enable the open internet to succeed.
Once you get used to making easy money, aka, search advertising, you sit and rest. I guess there is never a sense of urgency ever since then.
I've worked in apps and cloud. Plenty of urgency in both teams. Not any "sit and rest" vibe that I saw.
Yes—but it’s completely normal when you become as big as Google is, and I think they are doing a reasonably good job with maneuvering a “big ship.”
It’s the best place for engineers
Haters gonna hate
We are unhappy about stock performance. Still wouldn’t move for any other company for less than 30% TC bump. I see lots of people willing to get a pay cut and sometimes even be down leveled to work for G. It is a dream company for many, even those bashing Google.
Shareholders can always vote no confidence in the CEO or the board... and company direction is set at the top...just sayin.
We have two types of stock. GOOG and GOOGL. GOOG (that we get) has no voting rights