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A real Googler can perhaps comment better than I. But in my hazy recollection, there did seem to be a time, long before the Andy Rubin payout, when the "Don't
by vanusa 5y ago
A real Googler can perhaps comment better than I. But in my hazy recollection, there did seem to be a time, long before the Andy Rubin payout, when the "Don't be evil" slogan was not quite the perverse caricature that it has become today.
- dekhn 5y agoIt felt good to work at google up until about the time of the social debacle (starting with the cancellation of GOogle reader and ending with Larry Page handing CEO over to Sundar because Page finally realized he was a terrible leader). But let's be honest, Google was an Ads company that happened to run a Search website to attract traffic since ~2000.
- incomplete 5y agoduring my time there, we had a saying: "what ads wants, ads gets". anyways, IMHO, the beginnings of the end were: * when google search first landed in china * the initial few mass hiring events (2005-2008) * when they cancelled "social TGIFs" (TGIFs that your non-google friends could attend). i think this was 2008? the whole social debacle was just evidence that google had already lost that fight years previously...
- gaganyaan 5y agoCan't speak to internally, but public perception used to be very friendly to google. Relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/792/ https://xkcd.com/792/