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Nonsense. It’s been in the employee handbook (which you had to sign) and in the “10 things we know are true” for like 20 years
by dilyevsky 3y ago
Nonsense. It’s been in the employee handbook (which you had to sign) and in the “10 things we know are true” for like 20 years
- olliej 3y agoI do not recall seeing it, and I do recall looking for it explicitly. Which means even if it were there - which given this was the era in which they were removing stuff like this in order to win pentagon contracts seems completely plausible - it was not considered important enough to highlight or to put at the forefront of employee information.
- jacquesm 3y agoExcept it isn't true and likely never was. Good PR though!
- lokar 3y agoThat is unfair. The engineer who suggested the phrase and the others around at the time were being honest. But organizations change as they grow.
- jacquesm 3y agoEngineers don't set policy.
- lokar 3y agoAt the time they (Larry and Sergey) did.
- jacquesm 3y agoYes, and look what happened. It's not as if they have disappeared, they handed the reins to a guy who walked all over that and got away with it. If they really cared they would have put a stop to that and the uncountable other privacy and tracking issues that Google has been up to over the years.