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This is from 2009. Even if nothing's changed, what's the relevance today?
by shakil 11y ago
This is from 2009. Even if nothing's changed, what's the relevance today?
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI left in 2010 so I was thinking the same thing. Folks who have since gone to Google have mentioned that they have added counseling for folks which could help. And as I pointed out to some folks while leaving, the people who care about these sorts of issues will leave, new people will be hired and the ones who stay won't care about those issues, and so you will have successfully evolved the culture/environment away from something the company was no longer interested in providing. As far as I can tell it hasn't killed their ability to hire new employees so the net effect is all positive for Google.
- paxtonab 11y agoThe whole point is that everything's changed. These people are griping about lack of free food in the office, bad pay and lousy benefits. They also complain that Google is "constrained to thinking in the browser." Too bad they didn't stick it out to see the self-driving cars, and none of these people were working on Android.
- jfoutz 11y agoGoogle hired the grand challenge winners back in 2007. Google has always had amazing world changing side projects. They just don't seem to go anywhere (yet). Google has been talking about satalites for free worldwide internet access since before SpaceX existed. Don't get me wrong, they're doing amazing stuff. The drone delivery system they built is cool. It's just that, aside from maps, it seems like they have a hard time pushing through to completion.
- jwatte 11y agoI know several people who worked on Android, and then left, because the architects were repeating known failure patterns from the past, yet failing to recognize it. Those patterns are some of the worst pain points for current Android developers. (No, not device fragmentation -- that was unavoidable.)