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Could you expand on: "Stay in your lane, how dare you criticize our designers. This makes them feel unsafe at work?" Your quote seems a little bit like a dising
by fwip 6y ago
Could you expand on: "Stay in your lane, how dare you criticize our designers. This makes them feel unsafe at work?" Your quote seems a little bit like a disingenuous paraphrasing of real issues, but I try not to dismiss things just because they're surprising to my world view.
I would be interested in seeing what kind of feedback (internal? external?) prompted this sort of response.
- cbozeman 6y agoThe translation of that is: "We're Google and we have literally billions of users, therefore we can't be wrong. Shut the fuck up and go back to your cubicle. Your opinion doesn't matter because I have more seniority than you, even though I work in an industry that largely tosses aside such ridiculous convention and had historically lauded and elevated risk takers and rule breakers." In other words, Google has become thoroughly bureaucratic, which means it will inevitably stagnate and die... it'll just be a very slow death.
- oh_sigh 6y agoIf you're a SWE and you say you don't like the new redesign of X for reasons Y and Z, you will be told various things, including "Do you have an art degree? Didn't think so", and "These are your coworkers. You need to be respectful of their hard work" no matter how respectfully you phrase your critique.