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The Google+ project and exec team
- jazoom 8y agoI've only read for 5 minutes so far but this is a really interesting read.
- CoolGuySteve 8y agoThis is a dupe of an article from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212682
- poisonborz 8y agoJust another drop in the bucket of "well achieving people can still be piece of shit". This whole article was embarassing to read from start to finish, and I'd never hire this guy if I were a CEO anytime if this came up on search result. No matter if there is some truth behind the laundry list, the hateful and down-looking words sprinkled in ("They were one level below me") just smudges it all. He may have worked at high level places, this article shows he didn't learn much at all.
- oddity3356 8y agoThe "one level below me" remark was in reference to Google's employee classification system/hierachy. Should've been obvious from the context (the author mentioned he himself was classified as "UI Designer Level II"). And sure, hiring this guy would be a bad idea if your company was a complete shitshow, like Google apparently was at the time Knutson worked there. In any competently run company, he'd be an asset.
- fenomas 8y ago> down-looking words sprinkled in ("They were one level below me") That line presumably refers to someone's job title being one level below the author's "Designer Level 2" title.
- felixr 8y agoI think "one level below me" just means that they were one level lower on the job ladder; it's not directly a comment on their abilities