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I hope Google isn't that tone deaf. Jobs got a lot right, and one of them is at the VP-level you don't have excuses. The janitor can have excuses, but if this

I hope Google isn't that tone deaf. Jobs got a lot right, and one of them is at the VP-level you don't have excuses. The janitor can have excuses, but if this is under your watch -- it's under your watch. I felt like Google played dumb with the drug ads thing and didn't really hold people accountable (Page was hardly rebuked) -- here they need to come down hard to show that they're serious about "Don't be evil" -- or is that just a useful motto when you're the young underdog.

AznHisoka 15y ago
Not sure why people ever believed that Don't be evil propaganda. You can hand out all those cute Google t-shirts, pens, give free lunches, give free massages, give mom's good maternity, etc.. doesn't really matter.. You're a business and a public one at that... that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company.
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  >that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company. As a company director I repudiate this so hard. Most companies? Most-probably. Every company? Not at all.
  - shinratdr 15y ago
    Most large multinationals, almost definitely.
  - fname 15y ago
    Every Company that has stock holders? Absolutely.
- nl 15y ago
  That's not true. Google's two-tier share structure specifically means they do not need to act in anyway that Page and Brin don't want to. Even if every other shareholder hated everything they did, Page & Brin's shares will always out-vote them because each share they own is worth 10 votes of anyone else.[1] [1] "The actual voting power of the insiders is much higher, however, as Google has a dual class stock structure in which each Class B share gets ten votes compared to each Class A share getting one." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
rdouble 15y ago
The problem runs deeper. Google hired a lot of creeps during their huge hiring sprees in the mid/late 2000s. Don't forget that Google has been the #1 job choice for MBA grads since around 2006. Their semi autistic hiring process gets people with high IQs but does nothing to weed out amoral weirdos or even just plain assholes. One reason I have never responded to their recruitment efforts is that every psycho I've worked with over the past decade is now a manager at Google.
- tripzilch 15y ago
  That would explain a lot, indeed.
- yuhong 15y ago
  BTW the person who posted this was Nelson Mattos.

AznHisoka 15y ago

Not sure why people ever believed that Don't be evil propaganda. You can hand out all those cute Google t-shirts, pens, give free lunches, give free massages, give mom's good maternity, etc.. doesn't really matter.. You're a business and a public one at that... that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago
>that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company. As a company director I repudiate this so hard. Most companies? Most-probably. Every company? Not at all.
- shinratdr 15y ago
  Most large multinationals, almost definitely.
- fname 15y ago
  Every Company that has stock holders? Absolutely.
nl 15y ago
That's not true. Google's two-tier share structure specifically means they do not need to act in anyway that Page and Brin don't want to. Even if every other shareholder hated everything they did, Page & Brin's shares will always out-vote them because each share they own is worth 10 votes of anyone else.[1] [1] "The actual voting power of the insiders is much higher, however, as Google has a dual class stock structure in which each Class B share gets ten votes compared to each Class A share getting one." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

rdouble 15y ago

The problem runs deeper. Google hired a lot of creeps during their huge hiring sprees in the mid/late 2000s. Don't forget that Google has been the #1 job choice for MBA grads since around 2006. Their semi autistic hiring process gets people with high IQs but does nothing to weed out amoral weirdos or even just plain assholes. One reason I have never responded to their recruitment efforts is that every psycho I've worked with over the past decade is now a manager at Google.

tripzilch 15y ago
That would explain a lot, indeed.
yuhong 15y ago
BTW the person who posted this was Nelson Mattos.