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Is Google still an org whose methods are to be emulated? Maybe small parts of it? In general the vibe I get from Google is a scerlotic company completely overr
by next_xibalba 3y ago
Is Google still an org whose methods are to be emulated? Maybe small parts of it? In general the vibe I get from Google is a scerlotic company completely overrun by bureaucracy. And it’s been that way for a decade.
- UncleMeat 3y agoGoogle's problems are in leadership, planning, and prioritization. They aren't in their developer tools and technical foundation. I think there is some connection between the monorepo and aggressive deprecations, but that's not the root cause.
- alentred 3y agoAny organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin E. Conway
- next_xibalba 3y agoBut the technical and developer layer does not operate independent of the leadership, planning, and prioritization layers, right? They don't strike me as separable.
- knallfrosch 3y agoNever understood the emulating part. Google didn't copy Microsoft, and Netflix didn't copy Amazon, and Apple and Microsoft and Yahoo do their own thing also. Every big tech company claims its culture and tooling is the best and yet they mysteriously share none of it. And in any case, your company isn't Google. And it doesn't succeed or fail based on using this or that tooling. Identify your own pain points and solve those instead. Maybe you need a code search tool and buy it from the author, maybe you don't.
- fingerlocks 3y agoNobody at Microsoft claims they have the best tooling. Culture, for sure. But tooling is a sad joke. Hell, we can’t even paste a git diff into a Teams chat because the crappy RTF box mangles the output. And Microsoft literally owns GitHub. But we go home early, the stock is up, everyone is Mormon-level nice to each other. Hard to complain.