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> Splitting Google up, forcing this infrastructure to become open, etc would be much healthier than perpetually killing small products to protect Google's secre
by dilippkumar 6y ago
> Splitting Google up, forcing this infrastructure to become open, etc would be much healthier than perpetually killing small products to protect Google's secret sauce.
There are probably many Googlers here who have sacrificed huge portions of their life and time getting the Google infrastructure to work. Forcing engineers to make changes to their creation is insane.
Personally, I’d rather not build anything than have someone force me to break up what I’ve built because I was too successful at building it.
I think we should all agree to just keep politics out of engineering. We build things because we like to, we should assume the same for Google engineers.
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- selestify 6y agoEngineers are forced by management to make changes to their creations anyway. What’s the difference between management telling an engineer to do something and the government telling management to tell an engineer to do something?
- t0mmyb0y 6y ago" Forcing engineers to make changes to their creation is insane." Really? Is it really insane to command employees to do what the company wants? One of the biggest issues google has always had is allowing engineers to do what they want to get them to work on various platforms. Do you know how many thousands of hidden commands are in gmail?
- throwaway2048 6y agoIf you think Google isn't deeply involved in politics already, you are fooling yourself.