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People who want to work at a great company are (likely) unwilling to make radical changes to improve things. IBM hired Ted Codd, AT&T Ken Thomson, while Google
by ez77 16y ago
People who want to work at a great company are (likely) unwilling to make radical changes to improve things.
IBM hired Ted Codd, AT&T Ken Thomson, while Google is currently Rob Pike's employer. Clearly you would not expect all employees to do basic research (not even at the Institute for Advanced Study!), but I think we ain't seen nothing yet in terms of Google's research legacy. (The kind of which you won't find in a start up.)
- jfoutz 16y agoWould Ted Codd tell his boss to cut the database division? It turned out to be a win for IBM, but if the writing was on the wall, would he seriously cut his own division and go work on something else? There are thousands of second best-second brightest that think they're amazing. They might make something cool someday, they might not. Do you expect them to give up their budget in a bad year?