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by gretch 8y ago
seems really poorly defined and argued Here are the author's examples: >McDonalds and Burger King McDonald's is far larger than BK. Also Wendy's is larger than BK according to this source: https://www.qsrmagazin
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by gretch 8y ago
This theory doesn't make sense because whether there is a human driving an Uber or a machine driving a waymo taxi, the person in the backseat has the same amount of internet time. The situation is categorically different than the fiber
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by gretch 8y ago
source/disclosure: am google employee, didn't walk though The way it's organized, it's also kind of a social event. Lot of folks didn't just walk out, but went to B40 to specifically walk out there. They probably sa
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by gretch 8y ago
> Having a bunch of employees standing around being unproductive hits them right in the wallet But this is already true, whether there is a walk out or not. Even if they are sitting at their desks, if the employees are all frustrated and
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by gretch 8y ago
I think you put a lot of words into my mouth. It would wrong to summarize my argument as that because I made no recommendations to the course of action anyone should take. I only tried to explain the mentality of a non-walker (source: I wil
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by gretch 8y ago
They probably don't like it but also believe that the walk out doesn't _do_ anything. To clarify even further, there's been a lot internal messaging internally from execs condemning sexual harassment and assault since the new
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by gretch 8y ago
full disclosure: I'm a PM in FANG I think that's what the bad PMs do. Good PMs think 'what is the smallest possible thing we could do to start truly adding value against our problem space?' A good heuristic is that good
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by gretch 8y ago
I understand your ideological stance, I really do But read his reply again: >"Sure, everyone thinks you're a tech company or a search company or whatever - but Google is an advertising company, and thats it. All the other stuff
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by gretch 8y ago
You don't think the kind of reply he gave is pretty combative for the interviewing for a job at said company? You recommend that as a path forward for people who interview at your company or at Google in the future? Look I understand s
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by gretch 8y ago
I think you're making the point with your own answer. You say "in terms of revenue and profit...". Oh! Great point. I'd say you are right. What if you were to frame it in other terms? I mean if the entirety of Google can
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by gretch 8y ago
Maybe there were additional reasons, but tbh the answer you gave was very bad and probably would have been grounds enough to not hire you. >"Sure, everyone thinks you're a tech company or a search company or whatever - but Goog