Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
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#3Xoogler here.
About a week after joining, and having partaken of the food, massages, meditation rooms, fitness centers, shuttle bus, sports facility, arcade, juice bar, tech stops, shwag etc. - I remember thinking to myself "whatever we do here must be ridiculously lucrative".
There weren't signs of obvious waste (at least in my org.), and coming from other corporate gigs where you had to pay for coffee it really opened my eyes to what a difference it makes for employee morale / productivity.
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#4I was surprised to see no mention of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC in the article.
Re: Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
#5Xoogler here. About a week after joining, and having partaken of the food, massages, meditation rooms, fitness centers, shuttle bus, sports facility, arcade, juice bar, tech stops, shwag etc. - I remember thinking to myself "whatever we do here must be ridiculously lucrative". There weren't signs of obvious waste (at least in my org.), and coming from other corporate gigs where you had to pay for coffee it really ope…
Indeed, it's amazing how profitable vacuuming up users' private data without their informed consent and monetizing it can be.
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#7Xoogler here. About a week after joining, and having partaken of the food, massages, meditation rooms, fitness centers, shuttle bus, sports facility, arcade, juice bar, tech stops, shwag etc. - I remember thinking to myself "whatever we do here must be ridiculously lucrative". There weren't signs of obvious waste (at least in my org.), and coming from other corporate gigs where you had to pay for coffee it really ope…
A lot of that stuff although is cheaper for the corporation to provide than for the employee to pay for themselves in money and time. The corp has a tax advantage and a bulk purchase advantage. Not having a payment infra probably adds a little bit of efficiency too.
Re: Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
#8Xoogler here. About a week after joining, and having partaken of the food, massages, meditation rooms, fitness centers, shuttle bus, sports facility, arcade, juice bar, tech stops, shwag etc. - I remember thinking to myself "whatever we do here must be ridiculously lucrative". There weren't signs of obvious waste (at least in my org.), and coming from other corporate gigs where you had to pay for coffee it really ope…
Indeed, it's amazing how profitable vacuuming up users' private data without their informed consent and monetizing it can be.
You must be a joy at parties.
How is any of the data private when you willingly use their tools, sites, servers, etc? You open up google.com and type things in, what privacy do you expect? Or am I missing something you are referring to?
Re: Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
#9Xoogler here. About a week after joining, and having partaken of the food, massages, meditation rooms, fitness centers, shuttle bus, sports facility, arcade, juice bar, tech stops, shwag etc. - I remember thinking to myself "whatever we do here must be ridiculously lucrative". There weren't signs of obvious waste (at least in my org.), and coming from other corporate gigs where you had to pay for coffee it really ope…
Indeed, it's amazing how profitable vacuuming up users' private data without their informed consent and monetizing it can be.
Oh no, a critical comment that doesn't conform with the political status quo in the IT industry, silence him!
Re: Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, it's amazing how profitable vacuuming up users' private data without their informed consent and monetizing it can be.
You must be a joy at parties. How is any of the data private when you willingly use their tools, sites, servers, etc? You open up google.com and type things in, what privacy do you expect? Or am I missing something you are referring to?
ocdtrekkie is infamous for having endless anti-Google arguments on Google+ for the past 5 years. Trust me, you're not going to have a fruitful discussion.