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Google's Design Strategy is Killing Them.

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Re: Google's Design Strategy is Killing Them.

#11
It sounds like you dodged a bullet. You were asked a subjective question to determine if you would fit in to what they believed was "right." In such a large company, you really do need to fit the company culture or it ends up being just as painful for you as it is for your coworkers.

As much as I thought I would love working at Google, that opinion quickly changed after the interview. I discovered it was everything I hated about school with a thick layer of free food and brightly colored bicycles smeared on top.

Re: Google's Design Strategy is Killing Them.

#12
I think there's tremendous merit to a unified design strategy for Google. I think Google's medium to long term goal is to become ubiquitous with computing for many/most people. Lots of people already use a couple of their products (web search, email, online video viewing), but if they can make the user experience seamless across more products, they can probably speed up adoption for "average" computer users.
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