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Thanks for sharing. One of my greatest fears for our industry is that we'll never have a company like early Google again. The company should have changed names
by glimshe 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. One of my greatest fears for our industry is that we'll never have a company like early Google again. The company should have changed names when Pichai took the reins because it metamorphised into something unrecognizable. Most people you'll meet who worked for Google worked under his regime.
- armitron 1y agoLet's not pretend that Google pre Pichai was anything special, the rot was already instilled long before he came along. Other than very early days, Google has mostly been a force that corrupts, commoditizes and destroys. Sundar Pichai just made it explicit, a bagman-beancounter far removed from any engineering ethos.
- ralferoo 1y agoThe company was restructured and become a subsidiary of the newly created Alphabet Inc. just after this, so the company did, in fact, change names at that point!
- tbrownaw 1y ago> One of my greatest fears for our industry is that we'll never have a company like early Google again. That was mostly an artifact of the free money that gets thrown off as tech advancements are integrated into society.
- glimshe 1y agoMicrosoft was an amazing place to work for 10-15 years (in the late 90s and early 2000s) despite higher interest rates. I was there so I know it.
- tbrownaw 1y agoThe other kind of free money, that goes to people of the fun side of the unevenly-distributed future by nature of their having a tech advantage.