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There are quite a few humans at Google, both in HN and at twitter. Sadly all of them that I talked with seemed like people that I would not want to interact wit

There are quite a few humans at Google, both in HN and at twitter. Sadly all of them that I talked with seemed like people that I would not want to interact with again.

wegs 6y ago
Smug, superior, arrogant, yet surprisingly incompetent? (Disclaimer: I know some really awesome people at Google who I respect the heck out of; that's just my impression of the /prevailing/ culture there now, but it's far from everyone)
- skinkestek 6y ago
  Warning: contains snark. Not all googlers are bad but I am grumpy. There's now one you despise so much as the one you loved that betrayed you and all that. ------------- Busily making sure it feels even more lame to try to give them feedback? Or wondering what thriving ecosystem they can destroy next after - destroying rss, - participating in destroying federated messaging, - trying to kill all independent browser engines and replace it with a nerfed on that "sadly" can't block ads Some ideas: Maybe they can come up with a more opaque way to shut down peoples accounts? Or maybe a more sneaky way to befriend the Chinese government?
  - imglorp 6y ago
    And that whole AMP thing. And don't forget about that whole extension of the government thing. https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
- dependenttypes 6y ago
  Yes, in addition to often being pretentious, judgemental/prejudicial, and pretending to be moral while working for a morally corrupt company. I am sure that there are good people in google trying to change it from the inside or people who for economic reasons did not have a choice but I doubt that there are many of them. It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do.
  - throwaway45349 6y ago
    > It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do. We're here and do pay attention. Plenty of Googlers write comments criticizing the company here.
    - armitron 6y ago
      Which amount to little more than nothing. Google is destroying the open Internet and everyone that works there is complicit.
      - throwaway45349 6y ago
        Like it or not, Google is a part of the Open Internet. Example: AMP was created to protect the free flow of information which was being silo'd into apps. Consumers of news were abandoning the open (mobile) web due to the godawful performance and advertising issues. Google saw the existential threat of everything being locked down within Facebook and Reddit. Is this preferable?

There are quite a few humans at Google, both in HN and at twitter. Sadly all of them that I talked with seemed like people that I would not want to interact with again.

wegs 6y ago

Smug, superior, arrogant, yet surprisingly incompetent? (Disclaimer: I know some really awesome people at Google who I respect the heck out of; that's just my impression of the /prevailing/ culture there now, but it's far from everyone)

skinkestek 6y ago
Warning: contains snark. Not all googlers are bad but I am grumpy. There's now one you despise so much as the one you loved that betrayed you and all that. ------------- Busily making sure it feels even more lame to try to give them feedback? Or wondering what thriving ecosystem they can destroy next after - destroying rss, - participating in destroying federated messaging, - trying to kill all independent browser engines and replace it with a nerfed on that "sadly" can't block ads Some ideas: Maybe they can come up with a more opaque way to shut down peoples accounts? Or maybe a more sneaky way to befriend the Chinese government?
- imglorp 6y ago
  And that whole AMP thing. And don't forget about that whole extension of the government thing. https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
dependenttypes 6y ago
Yes, in addition to often being pretentious, judgemental/prejudicial, and pretending to be moral while working for a morally corrupt company. I am sure that there are good people in google trying to change it from the inside or people who for economic reasons did not have a choice but I doubt that there are many of them. It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do.
- throwaway45349 6y ago
  > It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do. We're here and do pay attention. Plenty of Googlers write comments criticizing the company here.
  - armitron 6y ago
    Which amount to little more than nothing. Google is destroying the open Internet and everyone that works there is complicit.
    - throwaway45349 6y ago
      Like it or not, Google is a part of the Open Internet. Example: AMP was created to protect the free flow of information which was being silo'd into apps. Consumers of news were abandoning the open (mobile) web due to the godawful performance and advertising issues. Google saw the existential threat of everything being locked down within Facebook and Reddit. Is this preferable?