3 ms·
Aren't googlers famously burnt out and only know how to use Google products because of dogfooding? I don't mean to demean the people just laid off, surely some
by themoonisachees 3y ago
Aren't googlers famously burnt out and only know how to use Google products because of dogfooding? I don't mean to demean the people just laid off, surely some of them at least know enough to operate other software suites, but hasn't this been identified as a common problem?
- alecco 3y agoCEO/HR people get the tingles with FAANG resumes. They don't know any of that.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoThat was when they were the darlings who did nothing but grow and snagging one of their employees was a stretch. Doing big layoffs kind of tarnishes the image.
- akoboldfrying 3y agoDon't know about burnout, the dogfooding is very real though. OTOH, they're pretty smart.
- vintermann 3y agoI wonder if the well-documented nihism of Google, coupled with how all the marvellous internal Google tools seem to work a lot less well without their product teams running them, is secretly an employee retention strategy.
- akoboldfrying 3y agoFeels like a stretch to me, I have to say. The only tool that comes to mind is Blaze/Bazel, which I haven't tried outside of Google, but the friction people experience is likely down to the fact that, outside of Google, you have to deal with a world that's more complicated than a single giant monorepo.