altaltson

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   by altaltson 3y ago

   I don't think it's possible to be Google ca. '06, but there are companies that I think are a little like Google ca. 2012. Meta is the obvious one, but people are all "no, not like that." Those people IMO have rose-t
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   by altaltson 3y ago

   I worked at Google from the early(-ish) days up till 2019. My hot take is that the employees broke the social contract first. Sundar "MBA" Pichai is not the cause, he's the effect. The truth is, the early Google would have ha
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   How did Google go so wrong so quickly?

   38 points by altaltson 4y ago|18 comments
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   by altaltson 4y ago

   Google has solid to excellent engineering depending on where you are. The problem is and always has been that the leadership hires mid HR and business talent. It’s hard to watch smart people with 40 years of experience having to jump to the
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   by altaltson 4y ago

   I really think things started heading south when Sundar became CEO and proceeded to exchange much of the leadership. He took over a company that was at the top of its game and fucking ran it into the ground in 4-5 years. He’ll be remembered