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I think people are missing what this really is: Google giving some of its most senior engineers the best retirement home to keep them away from competitors. Thi
by pm90 1mo ago
I think people are missing what this really is: Google giving some of its most senior engineers the best retirement home to keep them away from competitors. This isn’t in jest; I wish i could make enough money to not care for more from my job and then do research after i get old. Its honestly a brilliant move.
- mpfh 1mo ago[dead]
- zackwu 1mo agoIt depends on your lens, some may think it's a way to show them the doors after failed corp politics.
- decimalenough 1mo agoSanjay has been Google's most tenured IC since forever and is basically as immune to politics as you can be in a megacorp. He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basically whatever he wants, but apparently he decided to go hack some more with his buddy Jeff. There's a famous New Yorker story about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
- roflmaostc 1mo agoReading this article, now I can understand why there is jokes about Jeff Dean's binary readability...
- pilooch 1mo agoThe risk is they are a magnet for many more talented ML scientists to leave google.
- gopalv 1mo ago> a magnet for many more talented ML scientists to leave google. Also to leave Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and everywhere else. There would be more people who wouldn't join Google, but would love to do this instead.