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Notice, this is long article. Around 12 000 words or 30 pages.
by tumetab1 7y ago
Notice, this is long article. Around 12 000 words or 30 pages.
- molteanu 7y agoIt's endless and it doesn't get to the point.
- tantalor 7y agoWhat is the point?
- HillaryBriss 7y agoI think the article tries to make the following case: 1. There's a ton of dissatisfaction in the Google employee base 2. It's distracting company management and hurting the company core mission (making cash) 3. It won't go away any time soon (FWIW, I believe the case is overstated.)
- jonbronson 7y agoThat the company culture ain't what it used to be.
- jmkni 7y agoI generally enjoy longform journalism but this is an exhausting read. May have been better as a series of articles.
- notacoward 7y agoDoes Wired even have editors? Any editor who's not incompetent beyond belief would have told Nitasha Tiku that it's not necessary to include every single detail from three years' worth of notes. In fact, the excess verbiage makes it less impactful than it could have been. A good editor would have trimmed this to one half or even one third of its current length, and it would have been better without the bloat.
- jcranberry 7y agoDon't be ridiculous. The New Yorker regularly has articles of this length if not longer. It's ordinary longform journalism.
- notacoward 7y agoThere's nothing wrong with something being longer if the content warrants it. Complex topics require lengthy exposition. But that requires the writer to write, to arrange and connect things into a coherent narrative. That's not what happened here. This is a thin article, padded out to novella length with repetition and irrelevancy. Again, it's not bad that the article exists. It just needed a better editor.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoGoogle will have no problem identifying the infidel based on a phrasing analysis.