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some very good thoughts indeed. it's interesting to see your point of view, especially the part about how they're just worrying about market position, etc. i'
by fady 15y ago
some very good thoughts indeed. it's interesting to see your point of view, especially the part about how they're just worrying about market position, etc.
i'm curious to know from current employees, if the change of ceo has made things better, worse? how are things internally these days with larry running the show?
- NelsonMinar 15y agoHi, I wrote the linked blog post. I don't have many friends left at Google but from what I've heard there's a lot of internal debate about the direction of the company now. There's been years of grumbling about how big the company has gotten, but more lately there's a lot of dissent around the outsized role of Google+. If you believe this story, the debate is quite heated: http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/24/larry-page-to-googlers-if-you-dont-get-spyw-work-somewhere-else/ http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/24/larry-page-to-googlers-if-y...
- cromwellian 15y agoI wouldn't trust everything you see on PandoDaily if I were you. You're never going to find any large organization that satisfies all of your wishes, even a non-profit has internal political struggles. But on a relative scale of evilness, which big companies would you want to work for? For example, Apple (Doesn't trust employees, has them work on fake products, super-compartmentalized secrecy on campus, has agents spying on people to stop leaks, abusive douche-bag boss (Jobs) of shitting on people when the demo doesn't meet expectations, squeezing all partners for every last nickle, super-controlled closed proprietary ecosystem, on and on)? Apple sounds like a place to work on amazing products, but shitty otherwise. Google made a mistake by coining "Don't be evil", because they are held to a much much higher standard now than any other company because of it. The smallest change or transgression is hyper-analyzed by a cadre of people just waiting, sometimes wishing, to find a mis-step, anything they can run to the blogosphere with and claim "See! Evil!" Basic cynicism in people seems to relish those who preach superior ethics to fail. A guy who talks about "Don't cheat on your wife" will be scrutinized much more than someone who doesn't. And if he is seen in public having a business dinner with an attractive lady, of course the stories will be "See! Mr White Knight is unfaithful!"
- jcrites 15y agoHas them work on fake products?
- cromwellian 15y agohttp://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/30/apple_puts_some_new_hires_on_fake_projects_until_they_can_be_trusted_.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/30/apple_puts_som...
- spazcat 15y agoI've heard that they require that employees sign a new NDA every time there is a company all-hands. The place reeks of lack of trust and just sounds _depressing_ to work at.
- waqf 15y agoGoogle, or Apple?