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When you try to emulate a college environment and change work from a job to a lifestyle this seems to be what happens. People want to change their environment
by siliconc0w 9y ago
When you try to emulate a college environment and change work from a job to a lifestyle this seems to be what happens. People want to change their environment to reflect their values. Engineers especially. Both this guy and Damore seem to have sincerely good intentions, and if Google really was a college campus, their discussions might work but they're just incompatible with the reality of a workplace as-is.
- mankash666 9y agoCollege parties is where these conversations happened. Not in math or database classes. Converse all you want with your peers off the clock and off record if you truly want to emulate college
- calculusftw 9y agoThis is a good point. I live on the East Coast and have never worked for Google, so I hadn't considered how the work environment and their unique company culture might have been significant factors. There's just not that many (if any) companies here which have taken such a radical approach (I mean this in the most positive sense) to intentionally crafting a company culture so focused on employee satisfaction and retention. But, I hadn't thought about how those features which seem like extraordinary perks from the outside--like, no-charge gourmet meals on campus, on-site laundry, and a college-environment, might transform the culture in totally unanticipated ways. Anyway, oddly enough (now that I think about it), the Navy was remarkably similar in their approach: they did provide a "campus" (ship), with no charge ~~gourmet meals~~ chow, on-site laundry, and pretty good security. ;)