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He was at Google for 6 months. Whatever you think about his opinions in general, he doesn't know anything about how things at Google work.
by moultano 13y ago
He was at Google for 6 months. Whatever you think about his opinions in general, he doesn't know anything about how things at Google work.
- enraged_camel 13y agoHow long do you have to be at a company to understand how things work in it? (That's a trick question, since the answer is going to depend on the person's intelligence and ability to make observations.) Also, a ton of long-time Googlers agree with the stuff he says. It's not like he's some lone dissenting voice.
- paranoiacblack 13y ago<citation needed> Also, please feel free to get off of Michael Church's dick.
- Philadelphia 13y agoNot reflecting on this case specifically, but if six months isn't long enough for a new employee to generally understand how a company works, it would seem to suggest something's wrong with the company's culture, or at least with how people are brought on board. Six months is a long time in an industry where people change jobs every two years.
- benched 13y agoI consider myself to be consciously observant of organizational issues. I would say it took me about 4 years to develop a reasonably rounded picture of "how things work" at Microsoft, and then only from the point of view of a low-ranking employee. Big companies are vast, layered, intensely game-oriented social universes.
- minwcnt5 13y agoPart of the problem with mchurch was willful ignorance. A few colleagues, including some fairly senior people, reached out to him and volunteered to try and help him resolve his concerns. To my knowledge he never took them up on it.
- yuhong 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5518156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5518156