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Do you work at Google? If not, I’m not sure why you would care one way or another. This doesn’t affect you.
by pb7 6y ago
Do you work at Google? If not, I’m not sure why you would care one way or another. This doesn’t affect you.
- Hamuko 6y ago>If not, I’m not sure why you would care one way or another. This doesn’t affect you. Say that to all teams that have been reorganised around two pizzas.
- knorker 6y agoYou mean Amazon? What do you mean?
- pseudalopex 6y agoOther companies imitate Amazon and Google.
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- ashtonkem 6y agoWhen Google does things, huge swaths of the tech community reorganize our companies to match what Google does because Google does it, even if it turns out to be objectively stupid or only relevant at Google’s scale. I remember when damn near every company had a brain teaser part of their interview loop, because that’s what Google did. It turns out that that was a terrible way to interview engineers, but Google’s clout accidentally made a trend. On paper, Google announcing this means that only Google engineers will be affected. But Google also trend sets, so if Google starts cancelling WFH for spurious reasons, such as the personal idiosyncrasies of their executives, then a lot of people who don’t work at Google suddenly got their WFH opportunities put at risk for no good reason.
- acdha 6y agoGoogle definitely did this - somewhat famously with that billboard campaign which made the national news - but that trend started much earlier at Microsoft (Bill Gates apparently loves puzzles).
- ashtonkem 6y agoTotally fair. It’s not just Google that other companies cargo cult based on. Google is just currently on top, like how Microsoft once was during the Gates era.