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Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

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Re: Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

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thesuitonym wrote: post #49
layer8 wrote: post #42

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There is no duty to maximize profits though, that is a myth.

They have no legal duty to do so, but why do people buy stock if not to produce a return?

Producing a return doesn’t imply maximizing that return. Short-term profit maximization may actually be detrimental to long-term success. People also buy stocks because they believe in what the company does in terms of meaningfulness, and that meaningfulness tends to decline when trying to maximize profits.

Re: Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

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Post by gumby »

eftychis wrote: post #67
gumby wrote: post #57

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Actually I think Schmidt was quite good. Sadly he's the only CEO the company has ever had.

And Schmidt was forced on them.

Yeah, I'd never heard of investors threatening to take their money back, either before or since. I've never had such a clause in any financing docs I've signed.

Re: Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

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Post by lowbloodsugar »

Osiris wrote: post #68
space_invaders wrote: post #50

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Google has turned into the "new IBM" for years now. I've worked with Google engineers and managers from different "generations". It's shocking how the newer engineers are just your average consultancy engineer with leet code practice. They have little abstracting capabilities and would be pissed-off if you use some tool/workflow that's not "The Google Way™" (and that includes things like Github for code reviews (inst…

I worked at a startup with just 2 other engineers. They hired a guy from Google with a decade less experience than me. When I arrived I was taking my time to understand the culture, company, needs, etc. before making any suggestions. One example, they did Agile with sprints and I think KANBAN works better. But, I didn’t see it as an important issue to spend time on. So the Google guy comes in and from day 1 began mak…

If the CEO thought process used in a megacorp was appropriate for a four engineer startup, then he is a fucking idiot and you are better off out of that impending cluster fuck.

Re: Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

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Post by ch4s3 »

Osiris wrote: post #68
space_invaders wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has turned into the "new IBM" for years now. I've worked with Google engineers and managers from different "generations". It's shocking how the newer engineers are just your average consultancy engineer with leet code practice. They have little abstracting capabilities and would be pissed-off if you use some tool/workflow that's not "The Google Way™" (and that includes things like Github for code reviews (inst…

I worked at a startup with just 2 other engineers. They hired a guy from Google with a decade less experience than me. When I arrived I was taking my time to understand the culture, company, needs, etc. before making any suggestions. One example, they did Agile with sprints and I think KANBAN works better. But, I didn’t see it as an important issue to spend time on. So the Google guy comes in and from day 1 began mak…

You’re probably better off without that nonsense.
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