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Steve Yegge disagrees with your idea of Google's operations. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/that-old-marshmallow-maze-spell.html http://steve-yegge.bl

• ph0rque 18y ago
  Maybe it's just the fact that I am a naive hacker-in-training, but can you interpret the story a little bit? It really bugged me the first time I read it, and still does.
  • kirubakaran 18y ago
    Forced to eat marshmallows == Suffering from overhead imposed by the management little at a time. It looks like no big deal when viewed individually... but quickly becomes nauseating in aggregate. Also you can feel the helplessness that management creates perhaps inadvertently in the engineering team.
    • herdrick 18y ago
      Actually the eating marshmallows thing is an allusion to having to eat the Google dogfood: there were new Google tools all the time that his team was forced to use.
  • andreyf 18y ago
    In this podcast [1], Steve explains that this was a story of an Evil Manager who "slipped into" Google, and took a long time to be discovered. He suggests that he was fired after the story (although he doesn't say it outright). In this interview, Steve also points out a point along the lines of the ancestor poster's - that Google encourages employees who are ambitious enough to start "startups within Google". 1. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-25/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-25/