Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]

Post by solardev » Thu, Feb 01, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

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I'm afraid any cleanliness advantage is temporary. People are filthy enough in cars driven by actual humans, can you imagine what they'll get up to when there's nobody at the wheel?

Yeah, I'm sure some of the experience quality is because the only other riders are people Waymo selected for the beta, and nobody wants to get kicked out for misbehavior. We've joked a few times "don't forget that water bottle, I don't wanna get banned!" On the other hand though, I have seen misplaced items in Waymos a couple times and when I reported them in the app they pulled the car for cleaning ASAP. I actually…

> I would guess the in-car cameras

I didn't know they had those. Wonder if they'll eventually add a mode where you could opt-in to livestream games like Cash Cab or Carpool Karaoke. Would make the commutes more interesting :D

Post by VirusNewbie » Thu, Feb 01, 2024, 10:54 PM UTC

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I work in GCP, I don't get the sense that people are unhappy here. I think it's more likely that GCP, unlike the rest of google, is more of an amalgamation of many corporate cultures, (both good and bad). A little bit more Amazon/Oracle, a little less traditional 'Google'. I think most people work 45 hours a week. I don't see anyone slacking off. But it's not a death march, it pays well, there are tons of perks still…

> I think it's more likely that GCP, unlike the rest of google, is more of an amalgamation of many corporate cultures, (both good and bad). You don't understand why people fear the culture changing to something else? Most people there like the Google work culture, of course they would fear the culture becoming more like Microsoft or Oracle. When I worked at Google I had no deadlines, full control over what I do durin…

Just to clarify, I have full control of what I work on, a lot of say in my OKRs and more freedom than anywhere else I've worked in my almost 20 year career.

However, Cloud seems pretty intent on shipping and meeting deadlines so if we commit, I do feel pressure to make that deadline.

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