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In the latest installment of "Things thousands of people have said about working at Google already" Tim tells us that Google us unlike other businesses because
by weego 17y ago
In the latest installment of "Things thousands of people have said about working at Google already" Tim tells us that Google us unlike other businesses because people who work there know lots of things that they don't make public straight away.
Next week Tim discusses why Google lunches are so great.
- JoachimSchipper 17y agoThat's not really fair. He says that Google employees know a lot of "secret" information about Google, much more than e.g. Sun employees knew about Sun. It's still light on content (it's an announcement, not an article, so this may be somewhat expected).
- joshfinnie 17y agoI say it is pretty fair. There hasn't been another blog that successfully catches me with its titles then after reading I sit back and say, "what did I learn there?" as much as this one.
- joubert 17y agoI'm struggling to grasp that. If people working at Sun didn't know company secrets, who did know the confidential information?
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- btilly 17y agoThe point is that pretty much everyone at Google knows a lot of secrets about a lot of things. At Sun secrets were known by someone, but not widely disseminated internally. It reflects very different corporate cultures.
- mbrubeck 17y agoDude, was btilly just hellbanned? That sucks, he is one of my favorite commenters. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=btilly http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=btilly For those without showdead enabled, he just posted this (which is roughly what I was going to post): "The point is that pretty much everyone at Google knows a lot of secrets about a lot of things. At Sun secrets were known by someone, but not widely disseminated internally. It reflects very different corporate cultures." -- That matches what all my Googler friends have told me: There's a stronger than usual barrier around the company as a whole so that there can be fewer or weaker barriers internally.
- inerte 17y agoI've never played with showdead enough to understand it, but couldn't btilly have deleted his comment? For whatever reason. Then I don't think it's cool to reproduce it. PS: I agree with btilly and there's nothing wrong in the tone of his comment, just wondering if you're showing what is normally hidden and btilly wanted to hid.
- mbrubeck 17y agobtilly told my by email he didn't know the comments were deleted. Also, everything he wrote since this (two comments and one post) has been killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303360 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303360 Anyway, he's emailed pg to ask about it.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI'm interested to hear Tim's take on it because I remember when he wrote the employee blogging guidelines for Sun Microsystems[1][2]. He was a pretty big force in convincing Sun to talk more candidly in public - up to the CEO himself - so I'm curious to see how his views evolve in the very different environment at Google. [1]: http://blogs.sun.com/lskrocki/entry/sun_s_revised_blogging_policy http://blogs.sun.com/lskrocki/entry/sun_s_revised_blogging_p... [2]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/Policy http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/02/Policy