https://goomics.net/239/ needs a few more darts ;)
Google Internal Comics
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Re: Google Internal Comics
#202https://goomics.net/237/
Haha, so true.
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#203Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet: https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally. https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did. https://goomics.net/118/ - the las…
holy shit i didn't know that he was the one behind the tailgator. So cool!
Re: Google Internal Comics
#204Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet: https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally. https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did. https://goomics.net/118/ - the las…
What's TGIF at Google? Is it a weekly event where you can ask exec questions in an open forum?
yeah pretty much. larry and sergey would take the stage and you could ask them anything. there were also company updates. some folks asked them some really tough questions (cost of housing relative to salaries was a big one, the compensation Google Sheet leak was another), and all of it was fair game.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
memegen was legendary; i miss it
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Google has a culture problem (they're massive, doesn't apply everywhere, etc. etc.). There's a weird sense of internal entitlement where some (likely a small, but still substantial) number of people work there, are well paid, and yet act internally as if it's some terrible place doing terrible things (yet stay working there). Whatever way they rationalize this to themselves - it's odd. I don't have first hand…
>yet act internally as if it's some terrible place doing terrible things >Some of the most coddled/well compensated employees in human history acting as if tthey're in some sort of oppressive sweat shop. Does the existence of people worse off than you eliminate your right to complain? It kind of sounds like that's what you're saying. If you're coddled (by some metric) you should... shut up?
You should have some perspective.
If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!” then you should shut up (imo).
That’s just a subset, others take an overly adversarial stance to drive attention to themselves as activists - rather than have in-good-faith discussions about stuff.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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?
This is more or less the norm at every FAANG. New hires are trained by their managers to pee and mark their territory. This is how you pee 1. Don't verbally discuss project ideas with peers 2. Write up a nice beefy document even if the core idea can be expressed in 2 paragraphs 3. Do some vaguely relevant data analysis etc. 4. Circulate among leadership Doing the above only protects you from theft within your team. E…
One more way things get stolen. Someone quickly implements the key idea in your document and plays dumb about the plagiarization. To be "fair", the project might get split into 2 parts or be completely handed over to the one who "executed".
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
>yet act internally as if it's some terrible place doing terrible things >Some of the most coddled/well compensated employees in human history acting as if tthey're in some sort of oppressive sweat shop. Does the existence of people worse off than you eliminate your right to complain? It kind of sounds like that's what you're saying. If you're coddled (by some metric) you should... shut up?
You should have some perspective. If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!” then you should shut up (imo). That’s just a subset, others take an overly adversarial stance to drive attention to themselves as activists - rather than have in-good-faith discussions about stuff.
>If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!”
None of the cartoons were saying that though, were they?
>You should have some perspective.
Should my perspective expand to include straw men?
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drive/Docs/Meet. Cloud. Nest. These are a few examples of (though far from the only) products completely orthogonal to ads.
Drive/docs absolutely contributes to google selling ads since it brings you to their home site. I'll give you cloud and nest though.
How do you figure? There's no offramps from Drive or Docs into Search as far as I know. Are you saying that because they're subdomains, it somehow works to get you to ads?
Docs and Drive want to sell you storage and collaboration capabilities. Not ads.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are good, the best thing you can do is go leave and go work for a company doing things a better way. If you are not good the best thing you can do is stay and incrementally dilute their talent pool. If you actually want to have more impact than that as an IC you could try your hand at internal activism, but I'd say you have a dramatically higher chance of damaging your career than creating any real change at a…
Internal activism has demonstrably achieved a noticeable amount in steering the company to act a bit more morally. As far as I can tell all of the people quitting have achieved precisely fuck all. Not a single example to the contrary I can think of. Not at a big tech company (at a startup maybe). Interestingly every time this topic crops up there's a chorus of "just quit if you feel that way about it" as if the exact…
> As far as I can tell all of the people quitting have achieved precisely fuck all. Not a single example to the contrary I can think of. Not at a big tech company (at a startup maybe).
The idea is that you leave and go work on something else that makes the world better versus contributing to the borg.