Good article about how the culture here has changed a lot after the layoffs
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/20/tech/google-layoffs-employee-culture/index.html
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when you hire people like Sachin G to lead as SVP of GCP, then you know it's time to short this company
Google is still best Indian company.
This is a fantastic achievement by tech industry for encapsulating O&G cyclical business model. Go figure.
a practice still in place to screen potential new employees for "Google-yness," a personality fit with the company's culture of collaboration and openness, during job interviews.
Ah that would explain that one interviewer who nixed me (I interviewed there for a technical position in 2016 and almost made it thru but for ONE veto, according to the recruiter I was working with) because I didn't prostrate myself before him and pretty much told him that what he did (developed and tuned ethernet drivers) wasn't all that difficult and I had done that in a past life.
Tech companies may also be seeking to regain some leverage over employees after years in which — through worker activism, a tight labor market and a negative shift in the public perception of tech giants — workers maintained significant power.
Winner winner! Eggs for dinner!
it was the way the cuts were handled that stunned many inside and outside the company.
Or perhaps the culture was bullsh-t all along and the fringe benefits in place to get the naive millennials to give up their lives for the "great google corporate masters".
Guess it's better to learn now than later.
"don't be evil" ? "Don't be corporate" ? haha
how about "Don't be naive"