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No manager who leads in demand software engineers will ever be able to change anything unless their reports believe in the vision. The minute things don’t go th

No manager who leads in demand software engineers will ever be able to change anything unless their reports believe in the vision. The minute things don’t go their way, we can just get another job, It’s really hard for a CEO who had nothing to do with the current success of the company to have any type of credibility with employees. Let’s look at the CEOs of the other BigTech companies. - Apple: Tim Cook had as much to do with the current success of Apple as Jobs did. He worked for Apple from the time it was broke until today. - Amazon: Jassy (my skip*10 manager) led the AWS division from its “real” founding until he became CEO. - Facebook - still founder led - Microsoft - the CEO came in from Azure and had a vision for what the “new MS” should look like - completely different than “Windows Everywhere”

tektekX 4y ago
There's some bizarre PR campaign going on to try and brand Sundar as the next Steve Jobs: lots of the photos of him looking thoughtful with steepled hands overlaid with anodyne quotes about technology or AI. It's unclear to me if he's much more than a tech billionaire by luck. No kind of strategy is ever communicated to employees, just defensive + responsive TGIF responses. Truly bizarre.
- oogetyboogety 4y ago
  That's funny. Yes, for me this bizarre PR campaign shows up as promoted content when I scroll through my Google news feed.
notatoad 4y ago
>believe in the vision Which means there has to actually be a vision. As far as I can tell, the vision at google is just to keep making boatloads of money off AdWords, and not really care about anything else.
- solardev 4y ago
  > making boatloads of money off AdWords You forgot "and spending it on annual chat apps"
- jiscariot 4y ago
  Just think of the dividend they could pay if they admitted they are an advertising company, instead of distracting people with the carousel of "innovation".
elchupanebre 4y ago
Sundar's claim to fame is Google Toolbar for MSIE. It was a big deal at that time. It locked Google search on MSIE and ultimately enable navboost in search quality. Then he was the product lead on the Chrome team. I don't know if it was him who lobbied Page to create Chrome.

tektekX 4y ago

There's some bizarre PR campaign going on to try and brand Sundar as the next Steve Jobs: lots of the photos of him looking thoughtful with steepled hands overlaid with anodyne quotes about technology or AI. It's unclear to me if he's much more than a tech billionaire by luck. No kind of strategy is ever communicated to employees, just defensive + responsive TGIF responses. Truly bizarre.

oogetyboogety 4y ago
That's funny. Yes, for me this bizarre PR campaign shows up as promoted content when I scroll through my Google news feed.

notatoad 4y ago

>believe in the vision Which means there has to actually be a vision. As far as I can tell, the vision at google is just to keep making boatloads of money off AdWords, and not really care about anything else.

solardev 4y ago
> making boatloads of money off AdWords You forgot "and spending it on annual chat apps"
jiscariot 4y ago
Just think of the dividend they could pay if they admitted they are an advertising company, instead of distracting people with the carousel of "innovation".

elchupanebre 4y ago

Sundar's claim to fame is Google Toolbar for MSIE. It was a big deal at that time. It locked Google search on MSIE and ultimately enable navboost in search quality. Then he was the product lead on the Chrome team. I don't know if it was him who lobbied Page to create Chrome.