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VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'
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#12> "Another issue with all the 'BS' jobs in large corporations is that it takes profits away from shareholders who are most often the pensioners and retirement accounts of the rest of America," he said. "...they are also taking money away from the rest of the workforce's retirement programs." Oh no, think of the poor retired shareholders!
because old people don't matter?
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#13> "Another issue with all the 'BS' jobs in large corporations is that it takes profits away from shareholders who are most often the pensioners and retirement accounts of the rest of America," he said. "...they are also taking money away from the rest of the workforce's retirement programs." Oh no, think of the poor retired shareholders!
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#14Putting together a promo packet is hard work!
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#15> The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade
Isn’t Google pretty open that it doesn’t expect most of these to succeed?
This statement has “shut down the R&D as it doesn’t make money” vibes.
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#16Communication costs scale super-linearly with organization size, as does the cost of mistakes. I think a twitter warrior saying some portion of a massive company's engineers 'Do No Real Work' is just a lazy way to get headlines. Throwing shade at the issue isn't novel, but solving it is really, really hard.
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#17Title doesn't reflect the article's title (emphasis mine): "Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'" Without "probably", it sounds like he has insider information and can say it as a fact. With "probably", it shows that this is an educated, yet falsifiable opinion.
I would suggest that with "investor" and "probably" in the title it's more or less just the mumblings of a crank.
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#18This attitude is why private equity is destroying US companies. The hubris and ignorance of investors routinely gets translated into a cull of workers whose jobs they don't understand, leaving behind "lean" organizations that retain only whatever bits are currently most profitable but are less functional, resilient, sustainable, and humane.
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#19"Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment" Hah, who exactly did they contact at Google to ask if half their staff are doing nothing useful?
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#20> The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade Isn’t Google pretty open that it doesn’t expect most of these to succeed? This statement has “shut down the R&D as it doesn’t make money” vibes.
It's the "when you look for things, look where they are". A stunning approach to R&D.
Maybe Google needs to invest in crystal balls?