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I agree with the author by 100%. What a beautiful article. The experiences described almost perfectly match my own experiences at Google and they were one of th

by rsp1984 12y ago

I agree with the author by 100%. What a beautiful article. The experiences described almost perfectly match my own experiences at Google and they were one of the reasons I left. (I assume the author is talking about Google here) If there's one thing to add it would be that: Some smart people (especially the insecure kind) prefer pre-chewed answers by supposedly smarter or more senior people over their own scrutiny if the two disagree. I have seen this countless times. In fact I have met surprisingly few people at Google that have actually displayed critical and unbiased thinking when it came to the project they worked on or Google in general. This made the whole workplace feel a bit cult-like.

zaphar 12y ago
Your experience is directly contrary to my own :-) Of course I worked in the Chicago office so maybe it was due to being a remote office. But I and my colleagues regularly disagreed with senior people. Sometimes we were wrong and when we got more information realized it. Sometimes we were right and when we presented more information on the problem those senior people changed course. Both of us are working of purely subjective experiences though so neither one of us can really comment on Google as a whole.