Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture

hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Selling more ads can actually be engaging to work on even if it’s not world changing, if you’re given things you actually need to think through

  Unfortunately I can’t really see Google being the type of place that lets people think for themselves, they’re far too busy trying to please the shareholders for that

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  • hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh agreed, the scale and performances requirements to serve ads and n the modern internet is a really challenging problem.

    My point was simply that these brilliant minds are being wasted on this objective.

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  • TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ugh I’d feel so fucking gross is I somehow contributed to the proliferation of MORE advertising in our world. Like talk about an absolute waste of your talent and contribution to the world.

    Laying there on your deathbed someday and looking back on what you did in the time you were given…and it was making more ads, like how disgusted I feel about it all.

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Frankly at that pay grade in that industry you’re either going to work for a company that makes money selling ads/data, in high frequency trading or a hedge fund, and the latter two are objectively more parasitical - at least content creators and media publishers get a cut from ads, rather than all the money either staying in the company or going to their competitors, with the only instance of their business affecting normal people being when they crash the economy

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