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If a big investor disguised himself and spent a few weeks as a Google engineer, they would quickly become an activist investor demanding Sundar's head. The magn
by glimshe 2y ago
If a big investor disguised himself and spent a few weeks as a Google engineer, they would quickly become an activist investor demanding Sundar's head. The magnitude of wasted human potential due to Google's design doc culture is almost incomprehensible.
- esafak 2y agoCarl Icahn's the man for that. https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/i-fired-12-floors-of-people-icahns-hostile-strategy-that-musk-could-emulate/ https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/i-fired-12-floors-of-...
- another2another 2y agoQuite amusing reading that article, then glancing over at the Social media links where of course Twitter is now replaced by that X (which, let's be honest is one of the quickest and most effective rebrands I can think of. Hats off to the X (formerly known as Twitter) team for doing that so slickly).
- VirusNewbie 2y agoI think people are really over estimating how much effort goes into most design docs. Most development just happens and occasionally you slam out a doc to make it easier to justify CLs. Maybe one out of ten do I see someone who went way overboard but it is really not a time sink for the average SWE.
- asdfman123 2y agoMy theory is that late-stage Google is designed to hide monopolistic profits. This is exactly how I'd design a company if I wanted to burn as much money as possible.