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Devil's advocate. What if everything Google has done and is doing is actually good for what a company is actually generally meant to do... generate revenue. The
by wonderwonder 7y ago
Devil's advocate. What if everything Google has done and is doing is actually good for what a company is actually generally meant to do... generate revenue. The company has been growing and as it is now publicly traded, stockholder value very much becomes the drum beat.
Of course one can argue that Google is no longer the altruistic, everyone has value place it used to be, but perhaps it no longer wants to be. This is not necessarily a failure, just a re-prioritization of goals. For every story of someone leaving Google and blaming X, there are a thousand people eager to fill that now vacant role.
The stock is doing very well and the company is the undisputed king of search and actively targeting other industries. It appears what they are doing org. wise may be accomplishing exactly what it is meant to do.
- emmelaich 7y agoTo generate revenue should be the default assumption about what companies do. And what their employees do. And what the employees believe about their purpose. Is all the internal company discussion about people valuing and improving the culture? Or are they are just whiny self-important shits? I literally have no idea. (fwiw I am not and probably never will be a G employee)
- thu2111 7y agoCompanies are meant to generate profit, not revenue. Google generates a lot of both. It could probably double profits or more by just slashing a lot of the fat. Do they really need 100,000+ people? I feel like they used to launch amazing new products with far greater regularity when they were closer to 10,000. BTW you say "as it is now publicly traded" as if that's some recent change. Google's IPO was 2004!