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Wow, I'm shocked to hear that. Was this at a US office? I know some overseas offices have different culture. I guess it's not unprecedented. My wife (eng manage
by cromwellian 4y ago
Wow, I'm shocked to hear that. Was this at a US office? I know some overseas offices have different culture. I guess it's not unprecedented. My wife (eng manager) resigned from Google around 2015 I think, in part because Google Cloud had brought on a new boss in a re-org who was a McKinsey-and-associates person, and her boss tasked her mostly with making spreadsheets of business processes, because that's the format she was used to doing all her work in (spreadsheets). She went from managing Chrome engineers and sitting in on meetings to discuss features, to doing spreadsheets. :(
There was definitely a decline over the years, I was probably lucky in that the teams I joined (Infra, Gmail, AI) were run mostly by engineers and pretty cool people.
- dekhn 4y agoMountain View. In fact during the nest debacle there was a whole office building of people doing nothing with a clock on the wall which was "how long until Tony Fadell no longer controls you" counting down the days.