Yup, sounds like a classic company that became manager'd to death. Explains silly features or changes we see all the time. Move on, Google's dead.
Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
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#22That post is a very good description of Google and matches my experience at Google (2004-2016), both the good and bad. There is a lot of cynicism and misunderstanding of Google on HN, so hopefully this post will help. (Note: you need to scroll down a bit on the page to get the post.)
hi Ken. I don't think I mentioned you in the Enterprise article!
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#23Around 2016 at Google, my entire reporting chain, from manager to CEO, changed. Literally not a single person was left. Laszlo, both Erics, Patrick and the rest of the L team all left in quick succession. I think the old Google of < 2015 and the current Google are two companies that have almost nothing in common.
I guess it was the Alphabet saga? It's all like this. I have decided that if given the chance, I'd never work in companies with more than 1,000 persons.
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#25> one of the most annoying is the prevalence of pointless cookie warnings we have to wade through today. Hey if you're cool with me using your hardrive to store data I have a bunch of chia coins that need mining. Its weird how getting somebody's permission before using their stuff is considered unnecessary.
It is weird to focus on storage, considering the cache for the HTML/CSS/JS generating the warnings likely takes up much more storage space than the cookies themselves.
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#26The submitted link is missing the query params (or HN stripped them) that lead directly to the post:
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#27> Take Jeanine Banks, for example, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase. Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn't leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it. Her understanding of what her teams are doing is minimal at best; she frequently m…
Tacky to sling accusations without evidence or examples.
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#28Flutter is a leading framework? Maybe in some niche. It's not even in the top 10 for me.
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#29"Flutter is amazingly successful. It's already the leading mobile app development framework" ???
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#30Another article that highlights Vic Gundotra’s arrival and rise at Google as the beginning of their decline.