Yegge's new rant about Google (thoughts?)

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Jan 25, 2018 39 Comments

A longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is '100% competitor-focused' and 'can no longer innovate'
https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84

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  • Apple
    Stiffler

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    Stiffler
    I was hoping to see some juicy observations or insights but it just read like the opinions of some standard bitter former employee. Also a douche thing to do to the company you worked for that long.
    Jan 25, 2018 7
    • Apple
      Stiffler

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      Stiffler
      Yea. Complaining about a large company having politics or seeing its pace of innovation slow down can be filed under β€œold man yells at cloud”. Why go and publicly trash them unless you are a self important db or are trying to hawk your new gig.
      Jan 26, 2018
    • New / Eng
      pyd3v05p

      New Eng

      pyd3v05p
      If google doesn't innovate, where the kubernetes and tensorflow come from? It is 10x better than some entity just wrap some open source project and market to customer as innovations.
      Mar 1, 2018
  • Uber
    MastrChief

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    MastrChief
    Yeah because ride hailing companies aren’t 100% competitor focused..... tf is he smoking πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„
    Jan 25, 2018 1
    • Uber / Eng
      mvcguj

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      mvcguj
      Well Uber is not. We have some competitor focus, but most of the company is innovating from first principles.
      Jan 25, 2018
  • Uber
    nsNd45

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    nsNd45
    *writes long-winded whiny rant about former company ripping off competitors*

    *joins me-too Uber ripoff*
    Jan 25, 2018 0
  • Google
    γ€°

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    γ€°
    I worked at Grab before I joined Google and he has no fucking idea what he’ll be dealing with πŸ˜‚ Pretty sure he’ll miss Google politics, Google innovation and Google competitor-focus in a week
    Jan 25, 2018 2
    • Google
      transfrboy

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      transfrboy
      Also.. he's under the guy who created a company that resulted in the employees becoming Microsoft employees. So... sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side. And I work on innovative infrastructure at Google. Used to work on food delivery businesses before Google. Margin is low and the work isn't fun. I work at Google because overall it's better than most other companies. Just have to do good work, transfer to the right groups at the right time. And it's a small world here so do good work and don't piss people off so you can transfer to the right team.
      Jan 25, 2018
    • Grab
      Ssatay

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      Ssatay
      Yes. Grab has engineering wide β€œstretch” goal of keeping attrition below 25%
      Jan 26, 2018
  • Uber / Eng
    mvcguj

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    mvcguj
    Spot on. I left google a few years ago and it absolutely was already a has-been when I left. I don’t know why anyone would want to join google these days.
    Jan 25, 2018 6