What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)
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#2This article is adapted from Duhigg's book, Smarter Faster Better.[0] I remember it being an interesting read.
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#32016. Please title your post with year when posting older things.
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#4That’s a really long read. Can anyone summarize?
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#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399
Re: What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)
#6Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article.
The way this works is:
1/ Google crunches some data
2/ The company leadership looks at that data, twists it to leave out "inconvenient" facts, and tells whatever narratives they want to tell (internally and to the NYT)
3/ No data or any empirical results are ever released (even internally)
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#7The New York Times also started to write clickbait head lines. That's exactly what the world needs: more clickbait.
The article is just another glorification of data for nothing but attention and branding of the religion called Google.
Gamification of the work place where it is tracked with how many people you have had lunch sounds like a dystopia straight from Black Mirror.
It appears that Google's employee force seems to consist out of easily offended weak individuals with lots of social problems. Visit a tech talk with Google employees present, wait for one of them to ask a question and observe their behavior.
Just like the pan-sexual squirrel oriented 0.001% of the world these weird people try to convince the rest of the world that what they are doing is normal in such publications.
It's not normal; it's sick. We used to lock these people up such that the people upholding and paying for the fabric of society wouldn't be bothered by these mentally ill people.
Tech companies found a way to extract value out of some of these mentally ill people and as such a cost reduction results for governments as well as a tax increase. The downside is for their co-workers which need to cope with literally, crazy people.
Re: What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)
#8Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article. The way this works is: 1/ Google crunches some data 2/ The company leadership looks at that data, twists it to leave out "inconvenient" facts, and tells whatever narratives they want to tell (internally and to the NYT) 3/ No data or any empirical results are ever released (even internally)
I made a mistake. It turns out that there are actually 9 articles as part of that series, so I have to make a correction:
There is not a single piece of useful data in any of those 9 articles.
Re: What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)
#9Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article. The way this works is: 1/ Google crunches some data 2/ The company leadership looks at that data, twists it to leave out "inconvenient" facts, and tells whatever narratives they want to tell (internally and to the NYT) 3/ No data or any empirical results are ever released (even internally)
Disregarding the article, there is plenty of open and available research for this have a look here http://cci.mit.edu/mciresearchpage.html
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#10That’s a really long read. Can anyone summarize?
Hey downvoters, I find that a reasonable request. The comments here and in the old thread do not seem to recommend to read it, so if someone already read it, please be so kind to summarize it for the rest of us.