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He did not say, "It is my fault." He said, "I take full responsibility." The question stands: what does that mean?

xiphias2 4y ago
The same, that it was a miatake on his part, even though he was getting signals from different people that Google is overhiring.
fs111 4y ago
Nothing. It means nothing. It is in the current CEO firing template, that is why it's there.
baloki 4y ago
Wasn’t there a whole scene in Silicon Valley with Gavin Belson that basically mocks this kind of language?
- TchoBeer 4y ago
  Yeah, it was a great bit.
jonkho 4y ago
It means he will pay severance, benefits for months even after the people are gone. It’s just that people are so used to this entitlement that they overlook it by default.
- adam12 4y ago
  > It means he will pay severance Personally?
  - jonkho 4y ago
    The company made the hires to the presumed benefit for the company. The company will pay.
- tcptomato 4y ago
  "He" won't. It's not like he'll bring money from home.
danielrpa 4y ago
Taking full responsibility here should have involved firing himself along the 12K. This is the norm in many cultures, resigning (or even killing yourself, sadly) when being responsible for a major failure.
bawolff 4y ago
He said "I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here" You can argue about the semantics of "responsibility" means, but i think in context he's basically saying "my bad". Nothing more nothing less. If you look at the dictionary definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible this way of using it is consistent. "being the cause or explanation" is one of the definitions. Sure there are other meanings to the word, but this is the one that makes the most sense in context even if you wish he meant the other one.
Existenceblinks 4y ago
It means "I take the blame and some consequences thrown at me" .. that means yes I will do nothing just absorb the hit which is probably nothing.
refurb 4y ago
I interpret it as “a decision was made, it was wrong and I take responsibility for that decision”. The other option is he blames some external force or some other leader in the company.

The same, that it was a miatake on his part, even though he was getting signals from different people that Google is overhiring.

fs111 4y ago

Nothing. It means nothing. It is in the current CEO firing template, that is why it's there.

baloki 4y ago

Wasn’t there a whole scene in Silicon Valley with Gavin Belson that basically mocks this kind of language?

TchoBeer 4y ago
Yeah, it was a great bit.

jonkho 4y ago

It means he will pay severance, benefits for months even after the people are gone. It’s just that people are so used to this entitlement that they overlook it by default.

adam12 4y ago
> It means he will pay severance Personally?
- jonkho 4y ago
  The company made the hires to the presumed benefit for the company. The company will pay.
tcptomato 4y ago
"He" won't. It's not like he'll bring money from home.

danielrpa 4y ago

Taking full responsibility here should have involved firing himself along the 12K. This is the norm in many cultures, resigning (or even killing yourself, sadly) when being responsible for a major failure.

bawolff 4y ago

He said "I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here" You can argue about the semantics of "responsibility" means, but i think in context he's basically saying "my bad". Nothing more nothing less. If you look at the dictionary definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responsible this way of using it is consistent. "being the cause or explanation" is one of the definitions. Sure there are other meanings to the word, but this is the one that makes the most sense in context even if you wish he meant the other one.

Existenceblinks 4y ago

It means "I take the blame and some consequences thrown at me" .. that means yes I will do nothing just absorb the hit which is probably nothing.

refurb 4y ago

I interpret it as “a decision was made, it was wrong and I take responsibility for that decision”. The other option is he blames some external force or some other leader in the company.