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yeah, looks like some history rewriting. 9 years ago was 2017-- and by that time Google was already doing sleazy SEO shit, scanning peoples emails to who them ads, trying to make ads seem like general search results etc etc Google was *exactly* this company it is today
The "Don't be evil" motto was diluted in 2015 when alphabet was formed, and taken down in 2018, so yeah, things were brewing from before.
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The "Don't be evil" motto was diluted in 2015 when alphabet was formed, and taken down in 2018, so yeah, things were brewing from before.
The author of this article disagrees: > “Don’t Be Evil” wasn’t just a slogan of often-referenced Googliness—it was a north star for teams making hard calls. It definitely counts for something that at least one senior leader felt the slogan was relevant for decision making.
Do you going around telling people how virtuous you are? No, good people just try and be good.
The slogan was a red flag right from the start.
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identity pol: "people organize and advocate based on shared demographic characteristics" What in this post is possibly identity politics? It sounds like personal ethics to me. I don't appreciate identity politics, and when you muddy the term with having a spine and anything you don't like you make it harder to debate the actual problems the term is normally associated with.
Muddying waters and making debate impossible are his goals. He hoped to antagonize everyone with his trigger word.
> Google was a different company 9 years ago. No it wasn’t.
google used to be cool
They should have stuck with the charging money model instead of giving away services for the cost of attention. There is a deep irony in Google becoming one of the greatest corporations ever on the back of an ostensibly socialist utopia business model. Everyone on earth with an internet connection can use the full suite of google products (which pretty much every person reading this chooses to use daily) without havi…
Your comment in itself is deeply ironic.
Why post a Google docs copy of the original article? https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
> Google was a different company 9 years ago. No it wasn’t.
im surprised dave is still there too. probably can't let it go...
moral clarity usually sharpens the moment the last RSU hits the brokerage account
Sometimes. Sometimes not. I left with more than 4 million in RSU's left. Pretty much any Googler who leaves will be leaving lots of money on the table. This is because they are usually 3/4 year grants, so it's pretty much impossible to leave without lots of unvested RSU. There are some 1 year grants, but those are much more uncommon (~1%)
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BIT of a broad brush there but we can take the critique. While we vote for our leaders we don’t exactly get a say or have awareness of what sort of covert bullshit some over eager Yale graduate is doing as a top secret operation.