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Why I left Google (2012)

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Re: Why I left Google (2012)

#31
I feel like I've read or seen a fair bit of Google criticism from ex-Googlers on the msdn blogs. Can anyone confirm I haven't just been seeing this post over and over?

I don't care if it's just optics; having a post about this on your current employers blog platform makes me highly suspicions, no matter how many people share his opinion

Re: Why I left Google (2012)

#34
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ironically, i did not mean for this to go through as I was trying to locate the discussion on it.. obviously the url regex ain't working for this corner-case.

I'm not a fan of frequent reposting (if the last submission was a week or month ago) but once a year is tolerable :) "I was trying to locate the discussion on it.. obviously the url regex ain't working for this corner-case" I copy-pasted the url in the box. There are a few results: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=http%3A%2F...

neither am I.. you can provably do a check on my prior submits.. and hopefully that shows the type of topics .. I was honestly trying to locate the darn discussion on the blog.. :-).

Re: Why I left Google (2012)

#37
post #10

Hate to be that guy, but who is James Whittaker? (nice writeup, as it mirrors the feelings many of my google friends feel)

He was an engineering director for a couple of years working on the dev/test tool chain and Google+.

He's done a few books, including one he co-authored called How Google Tests Software, which is a fairly pragmatic discussion of large-scale testing practices at Google. (I'm not sure if this is still the case, but Nooglers used to read this book as a part of their orientation.)

Re: Why I left Google (2012)

#38
post #24

Shouldn't the title be Quitting Google instead? This title sounds like Google is quitting, when instead an employee quit Google.

Right. That's what I thought while clicking the link "Google quitting what ? "

That's it folks, Sergey pulled the plug out of the Google server below his desk. Everyone go home.

Re: Why I left Google (2012)

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post #2

Are Google's driverless car just a way to show more ads? Instead of driving a car you could be watching an ad.

No, they are a way to more effectively collect photos for Street View and WiFi AP locations for GPS-free location based services... both are which are products of Google Maps which itself is a vessel for selling advertising.
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