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I don't understand the desire to do vague announcements. Why bother announcing at all until you have something more concrete? What does "time to get to work" even mean here? Doing what?
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There's no reason the government actually needs to build the infrastructure itself—but since infrastructure is a natural monopoly (only room for one set of roads, one EM spectrum, etc) the government needs to "regulate it into existence", setting laws to incentivize cooperative building of neutrally-owned infrastructure by interested players, rather than the natural monopoly leading to a real monopoly/oligopoly.
That sounds a lot more appealing to me than the government actually building the thing. With the EM spectrum for instance, the unlicensed 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands have been pretty useful. Google actually tried to get the 700 MHz spectrum (in the 2008 auction) licensed in a way that would probably benefit consumers quite a bit, though I'm not sure how well that worked. It's odd that Google had to do that when it's ostens…
It worked well except for the fact that they were allowed to form monopolies/oligopolies after expanding into new markets.
I wonder how much Google does this just to get positive PR to hire for their main businesses. It gives the impression that you'll be working on cool stuff like this when you join Google instead of the rest of the 99% that drives the ad hive (which is where you'll really end up).
It doesn't match my experience. In almost seven years at Google I've worked on amazingly interesting projects - from hardware to user-facing products.
I've never once, in my entire time, had any level of management tell me that I should be worrying about selling ads or monetizing my projects. The consistent message has been "build great products".
So the notion that 99% (or really any majority) of developers at Google "drive the ad hive" is completely untrue - at least in my experience.
Sometimes I have to increase the size of the page to ease my reading. This is what I get:
http://puu.sh/iklL3/08aa3d3563.png
And I can't even scroll to the right! Is there something wrong with my chrome configuration (maybe a plugin not playing nice)? Or can someone else repro this on their mac?
Sorry for OT but why is google plus not responsive?!? Sometimes I have to increase the size of the page to ease my reading. This is what I get: http://puu.sh/iklL3/08aa3d3563.png And I can't even scroll to the right! Is there something wrong with my chrome configuration (maybe a plugin not playing nice)? Or can someone else repro this on their mac?
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That also has been my experience. I've moved three times in five years and every time it's been because I heard about what a team was doing and wanted to join them.
Dude, we're both in 2HS! I'm in the "UI Box" (Material).
I wonder how much Google does this just to get positive PR to hire for their main businesses. It gives the impression that you'll be working on cool stuff like this when you join Google instead of the rest of the 99% that drives the ad hive (which is where you'll really end up).
I don't know where you are getting this from - do you have any personal experience to draw from? It doesn't match my experience. In almost seven years at Google I've worked on amazingly interesting projects - from hardware to user-facing products. I've never once, in my entire time, had any level of management tell me that I should be worrying about selling ads or monetizing my projects. The consistent message has be…
I'm a new hire, and I got assigned to somewhere that doesn't align with my interests, at all... other than the fact that it's "not front end."
Hoping switching is as easy as everyone says!
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It certainly didn't happen that way for me. I'm doing exactly the kind of work that I love to do. You're afforded quite a bit of mobility inside the company.
That also has been my experience. I've moved three times in five years and every time it's been because I heard about what a team was doing and wanted to join them.
I'm a new hire, and I've been given the choice of working on one of two teams, neither of which particularly align with my interests.
It's interesting that Google chooses to create new companies for problems orthogonal to its core purpose, instead of choosing to diversify itself as a company into multiple industries. Is this a common phenomenon or is it something that is new?
