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It really depends on whether you choose to participate. If you don't waste time on email groups and intranet social media, very little of this sludge actually s
by nice_byte 8y ago
It really depends on whether you choose to participate. If you don't waste time on email groups and intranet social media, very little of this sludge actually seeps into the day-to-day work, or at least that has been my experience.
- badlucklottery 8y agoYup. It's there if you go looking for it but it's 100% invisible if you don't.
- V-eHGsd_ 8y agoexcept when it makes it to the front page of hn.
- amarkov 8y agoBut isn't that the problem? When we see the news media blasting articles about internal disputes most Googlers hadn't heard of, that could mean the internal culture is secretly toxic and the employees are too brainwashed to notice. Or it could mean that people are selectively leaking a misleading picture of the company.
- V-eHGsd_ 8y agoGoogle has 80k employees. If just 10k employees have heard of some kerfuffle before it winds up on tech crunch, that's still a _lot_ of people. But maybe the specifics of some individual disputes aren't widely known as the events are unfolding; still, lots of the stuff described did get wider airtime internally before being 'leaked'.
- disposable467 8y ago+1 to this. I've been there 6 years and it has had essentially zero impact on me. I usually only find out about it when people are making fun of it on memegen.