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It’s much easier to lose trust that to gain it, and the ramifications of the move will be felt for a very long time. There’s the time before and the time after,
by chaboud 4y ago
It’s much easier to lose trust that to gain it, and the ramifications of the move will be felt for a very long time. There’s the time before and the time after, and Google won’t ever really look the same to the industry.
That said, Google probably now actually looks more like what Google is and has been for some time. The industry was just hanging on to goodwill forged over the last two decades.
There’s still massive innovation and builder spirit there, but I’m betting that we’ll have a much easier time poaching our favorite employees from Google now than we have over the last few years.
I’ve been part of several companies that have gone through layoffs, and one thing I’ve learned is that companies that haven’t done it in a while (or ever) typically do it poorly.
- bbor 4y agoVery good points, especially the last one: when trying to understand the logic behind these layoffs, I honestly haven’t considered incompetence enough. Surely people making tens of millions of dollars a year got there through intelligence and merit and not capitalist fiat? Right? Right…?
- scarface74 4y agoYes I’m sure as one of the top paying public companies that issue stock instead of Monopoly money (equity in private companies) tech people are going to refuse to work for Google.
- pm90 4y agoTheir compensation isn’t that good (at least for non famous folks) within Big Tech.
- scarface74 4y agoCompared to who? Amazon (my employer)? Apple? Microsoft? Facebook? As far as I know the rankings were - Facebook (but I don’t hate myself enough to consider working there) - Google - Amazon - Apple - Microsoft But Facebook has had a worse stock price drop than the rest.