A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/
It's when they stopped the holiday gift tradition (which was a nexus 5 in the last year they actually gave them out iirc).
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#22A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/
Guess. Ruth Porat + Google employee count.
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#23I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
The alternatives aren't really all that better on the topics that he criticized. If you work at big tech, at that scale, it's inevitable there will be parts of the company you disagree with. From my experience there, as long as your criticism is legitimate and constructive, it'll be well received by Googlers/company, heck some of his criticism pales in comparison to the ones done with memes.
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#24"Don't focus too much on promotion" - A Billionaire Google Exec https://goomics.net/228/
"Exercise sheets to practice quickly spotting other contributor names and easing them"
If the place looks like a Paranoia game, is it evidence that an AI has already took over the place?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Manu Cornet left Google earlier this month, but no one has any problem with snark like this. Not management, not HR and not every day Googlers. Some things can’t be said, mostly personal attacks, but the freedom to say critical things very snarkily is completely there and no one thinks anything about it. Compared to some things that are said and published internally, Goomics are quite tame.
To throw in a little bit more: This freedom to criticize, and management support thereof is one of the reasons many people find Google a good place to work.
I went from 100% sure I was taking the Apple offer to a contest when my Google interviewer told me there was an internal meme site with people roasting Google Plus strategic decisions daily. My favorite part of the culture is allowing conversation instead of partitioning and stifling
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#26A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/
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#27I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
(Opinions are my own)
An alternate way of looking at it:
When you work at a place you can help influence the culture to move it in the right direction. When you aren't working there you can't.
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#28I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
The alternatives aren't really all that better on the topics that he criticized. If you work at big tech, at that scale, it's inevitable there will be parts of the company you disagree with. From my experience there, as long as your criticism is legitimate and constructive, it'll be well received by Googlers/company, heck some of his criticism pales in comparison to the ones done with memes.
I don't have as thick a skin as you, and I get really dispirited when this sort of criticism is adopted as a personality trait / cause internally. It's barely criticism rather than hyperbolic rancor, and while every good community needs people pointing out the bad, as you note, people know they're working at a big company and should value how we avoid things like JEDI, etc. thanks to leadership.
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#29I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.
Honestly, I don't find it that surprising. I mean the whole advertising industry does exist and will continue to do so. Plus, if they didn't directly hate doing the work itself I could see someone tolerating it especially knowing that google's compensation is pretty good.
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#30If you right click and click View Image, you can then zoom in.... helpful for https://goomics.net/img/2018-01-25_mk_cookbook.png
You can also click on an image to open it in a larger viewer and then use the arrow keys to navigate through the gallery.