Mourning Google
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Mourning Google
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#2While the article's content brings nothing to my life whatsoever, I did enjoy your writing style.
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#3While the article's content brings nothing to my life whatsoever, I did enjoy your writing style.
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#4Hot on the heels of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051655, today is going to turn into pining for the past google day :(
I remember everyone wanting to work for them, back in their cultural heyday...
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#5> I got a $90K bonus that year
That's why they liked google.
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#6> I got a $90K bonus that year That's why they liked google.
I see you've attracted at least 2 downvotes. Never really gotten any insight into the minds of the downvoters myself - and in this case you can only be right. It isn't like the current wave of blog posts are talking about the wonderful place Google is in culturally. They're pointing out that Google - under the stewardship of people who've been at Google for a long time - is converging to the corporate culture mean.
If they're working at a company and they're just watching it drift to the mean, we can safely conclude that they're in it for the money. Nothing wrong with that, but let us not get distracted by razzle-dazzle on the side. People work because they get paid.
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#7> I got a $90K bonus that year That's why they liked google.
I see you've attracted at least 2 downvotes. Never really gotten any insight into the minds of the downvoters myself - and in this case you can only be right. It isn't like the current wave of blog posts are talking about the wonderful place Google is in culturally. They're pointing out that Google - under the stewardship of people who've been at Google for a long time - is converging to the corporate culture mean. I…
It's moving from "paying the bills plus ..." to "paying the bills". Since the latter is _kinda_ important, it's difficult to let go when the "plus ..." part has left the building (and stopping that from happening is beyond the management level of most) - moreso, when there's no obvious place it went to that you could follow.
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#8Things were better when I was younger and still worked there
I don't know how much of it is a perspective thing but it's probably a decent amount.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see you've attracted at least 2 downvotes. Never really gotten any insight into the minds of the downvoters myself - and in this case you can only be right. It isn't like the current wave of blog posts are talking about the wonderful place Google is in culturally. They're pointing out that Google - under the stewardship of people who've been at Google for a long time - is converging to the corporate culture mean. I…
It's moving from "paying the bills plus ..." to "paying the bills". Since the latter is _kinda_ important, it's difficult to let go when the "plus ..." part has left the building (and stopping that from happening is beyond the management level of most) - moreso, when there's no obvious place it went to that you could follow.
The plus was contributing to the spying-censorship advertising machine vortex thing that is Google.
Google was - still is - a lot more responsible than most companies with that responsibility. But the risks are high and obvious. How good are these people at assessing this "plus"? I'd rather just be in it for the money if I were involved in Google. Being in it for the money is a respectable thing.
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#10My opinion is that google only ever presented as a new type of company - without ever being that.
It was marketing spin - and I bought into that.
I since found out it was funded from inception by inqtel, the CIA's venture capital arm. There are lots of articles to this effect, eg: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
So, the hype, the free canteen, etc was all just spin to move people from a more messy handmade internet, into a corporate one. A way to dominate and intercept everyone's actions online when searching. And you have to say, it was a good strategy! Do the younger generation even know that there are pages outside of the corporate held companies?