There's nothing special about Google here. Sure some people want to go there purely for the culture but I bet most have enriching themselves as their top priority. Particularly higher ups like Douglas Merrill. The recent drop in GOOG prices probably left him with a ton of options that are underwater.
Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
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Re: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
#22I didn't get the tire shredders joke, what does it mean?
Re: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Do we really need the top sliver of our graduates working on destructively taking market share from PayPal? Do we really need PayPal in the first place? We had credit card companies already, and eBay had its own offering before PayPal. Hell, do we really need Google? Alta Vista was already here, why did we need another search engine? All that competition is just "destructive" "duplication". Or maybe the reason why w…
> competition bad? No one is saying competition is bad. The point is we don't need all our geniuses competing with PayPal---it shouldn't be that hard in the first place. Let someone else do it. >You have very strong opinions on where other people choose to work and who should be able to hire them. It sounds like you just want a really bright person or group of people to assign all the tech grads to jobs. Similar thin…
>On the contrary. I want really bright people to assign themselves in a way that isn't ridiculous.
That is, ridiculous to you. You want the job market to fit your idea of what people should be doing.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have to agree. The same sentence caught my attention. I can only speak for the East Coast, and in microeconomic terms, but Google has definitely put a hurt on the market here. They are worse than all of the banks put together. The cream of the crop here---people who are too smart to veg out in a bank---are more than willing to go to Google, when they would otherwise be furthering some smaller and more important proje…
1. So what do you want to do about it? Are you going to force all these smart young people to stop joining google? Pass a law banning tech companies from giving out free gourmet food? 2. What you don't seem to realize is that the existing college curriculum in almost all US colleges, including the ivy league ones, do not correctly prepare a student for a real software engineering environment. Sure it's nice to learn…
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#25> There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. I've been saying this for a long time and I really believe it. At least borderline evil. It seems to me there's nothing doing more damage to (web) technology than Google hording many (most?) of the world's greatest hackers and severely under utilizing their abil…
Have to agree. The same sentence caught my attention. I can only speak for the East Coast, and in microeconomic terms, but Google has definitely put a hurt on the market here. They are worse than all of the banks put together. The cream of the crop here---people who are too smart to veg out in a bank---are more than willing to go to Google, when they would otherwise be furthering some smaller and more important proje…
Perhaps the organization is the project. Haven't you guys read the Dune books?
Google is the seemingly invincible Tyrant. It had the foresight to see that computer science would soon be extinct if programmers were allowed to continue working for large mindless corporations. It hires Gholas (I mean programmers) for their skills, but who are increasingly suspicious of the uses their skills are put to. When at last the Tyrant dies, the programmers will scatter, never again willing to work for a big company.
Re: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have to agree. The same sentence caught my attention. I can only speak for the East Coast, and in microeconomic terms, but Google has definitely put a hurt on the market here. They are worse than all of the banks put together. The cream of the crop here---people who are too smart to veg out in a bank---are more than willing to go to Google, when they would otherwise be furthering some smaller and more important proje…
1. So what do you want to do about it? Are you going to force all these smart young people to stop joining google? Pass a law banning tech companies from giving out free gourmet food? 2. What you don't seem to realize is that the existing college curriculum in almost all US colleges, including the ivy league ones, do not correctly prepare a student for a real software engineering environment. Sure it's nice to learn…
So what do you want to do about it?
Get some googlers to co-found with me, ideally...