Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
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Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#2Reaction: Um, kids? You're working for a number-8-in-the-Fortune-500 company, with a "keep turning our monopoly-business crank to make yet more money" financial model. Where are you getting the idea that the management of such a business should be non-boring, let alone visionary?
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#3Of course they are boring. Non-boring means taking huge risk and chances. Something Google hasn't had to do for at least a decade. If you want interesting, join a startup. But you might end up without a job when they lose funding/run out of money.
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#4Dont get baited folks
Those are companies hiring 100Ks of ppl, of course some of them are frustrated but it is not as relevant as news try to make it.
I bet you could read 10s of posts like that monthly about MSFT 15 years ago
What stock market taught me is that snarky comments under articles or reddit arent good future perf. predictor
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#5Reaction: Um, kids? You're working for a number-8-in-the-Fortune-500 company, with a "keep turning our monopoly-business crank to make yet more money" financial model. Where are you getting the idea that the management of such a business should be non-boring, let alone visionary?
Why did you have to prefix your comment with “reaction”? Isn’t that assumed? Or can people interpret it in another way?
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#6You don't need to be a Google employee to know its products lack innovation from day 1.
It's a one trick pony company, having just created search, rest is only buy/copy/steal.
It's a company rotten to the core.
It bought a few companies back then and helped scale it with capital (Android, YouTube...), also copied others, like there's a whole Netflix documentary about Google Maps.
Don't come saying that Gmail was genius. There were so many free web mail offerings at the time. The only thing they did differently was giving 5GB storage because they never needed to make money with it, as search was a money printer.
Now that there is no ad space left to be added on their products, it's a sinking ship.
Also with their dieing cash cow search business, with Perplexity and OpenAI eating their lunch.
It you still look at Google and don't see IBM, you need new glasses
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#7Of course they are boring. Non-boring means taking huge risk and chances. Something Google hasn't had to do for at least a decade. If you want interesting, join a startup. But you might end up without a job when they lose funding/run out of money.
Considering tech layoffs, that's a very real chance in a mega corp as well.
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#8You don't need to be a Google employee to know its products lack innovation from day 1. It's a one trick pony company, having just created search, rest is only buy/copy/steal. It's a company rotten to the core. It bought a few companies back then and helped scale it with capital (Android, YouTube...), also copied others, like there's a whole Netflix documentary about Google Maps. Don't come saying that Gmail was geni…
Even if Gmail was genius, it's almost 20 years old and hasn't really evolved that much since day 0.
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#9You don't need to be a Google employee to know its products lack innovation from day 1. It's a one trick pony company, having just created search, rest is only buy/copy/steal. It's a company rotten to the core. It bought a few companies back then and helped scale it with capital (Android, YouTube...), also copied others, like there's a whole Netflix documentary about Google Maps. Don't come saying that Gmail was geni…
Even if Gmail was genius, it's almost 20 years old and hasn't really evolved that much since day 0.
How would you want it to evolve? It shows and sends emails good.
The promotions and social tabs are nice but I’d probably rather those all just went to spam instead.
Re: Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
#10You don't need to be a Google employee to know its products lack innovation from day 1. It's a one trick pony company, having just created search, rest is only buy/copy/steal. It's a company rotten to the core. It bought a few companies back then and helped scale it with capital (Android, YouTube...), also copied others, like there's a whole Netflix documentary about Google Maps. Don't come saying that Gmail was geni…
I seem to recall gmail starting with 1gb?