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More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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Re: More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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What is Sundar’s vision? I’m not quite sure and I think I’m pretty aware of google’s goings on through media and such.

To continue servicing the state department to cement their position as an organ of the state.

and you know exactly where that organ is suppose to go

Re: More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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Wait, our CEO has a vision?

Google company culture strongly erodes for two reasons:

De-facto retirement of Larry and Sergey and significant deepening of the reporting structure in the last few years (ie endless layers of middle management).

Both of these make consistent vision and values much harder to achieve. Recent Googlegeist just reflects that.

Re: More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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Sundar is neither a founder nor has been a practicing Engineer. That's gotta hurt a company like Google which is mostly Engineering driven.

I guess Google at this point just keep churning through systems because Engineers are incentivized to show impact and rarely end up creating new good products.

Adding tons of new engineers is also probably hurting their overall quality and velocity.

Re: More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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What is Sundar’s vision? I’m not quite sure and I think I’m pretty aware of google’s goings on through media and such.

According to some search results ... it's

> “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the “device” to fade away. Over time, the computer itself — whatever its form factor — will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world”

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/sundar-...

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