It reads like different people wrote different sections of it
Comment on It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s some good points in this article about how launching products irresponsibly has weakened Google’s overall portfolio and eroded customer trust.
But there’s a whole of of weird anti-worker vibes in here too. Overall I really don’t think the problem with trillion dollar mega corporations is that people don’t work enough dedicated hours.
thalience@lemmy.world [bot] 5 months ago
Ilflish@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s not that people don’t work enough but when companies close in on monopolies there is less pressure to grab market and when companies with high stock prices offer stocks, there is bound to be some relaxation when you find out your stocks have inflated like a large Christmas bonus. There’s not much you can do about it is the thing. Every company does it’s best when competitive and the problems occur during stagnation at the top.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Launching or Killing?
I don’t think launching is an issue. It’s the sheer number of products they kill off.
It’s becoming comical how many times they’ve killed and relaunched Google Chat.
They’ve become incredibly unreliable.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Both.
They shouldn’t have launched 4 chat apps and killed 3.
They shouldn’t launch products with no plan to support them.
They shouldn’t kill products that customers use.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You wanna know who’s to blame?
You’ll never guess…
Steve Jobs. One of founders, Larry or Sergey, was given a piece of advice that they found so ‘incredible’ that they mentioned it during an interview and a book.
‘Don’t be afraid to trim the fat and kill products’. About 6 months after I read about that Google’s products started dying like flies. They’ve kept the same pathological drive to murder products for over a decade since and it’s fucking infuriating.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tbf the motivation makes sense but don’t publicly announce products just to abruptly drop them. I’ve literally never heard of an apple product that was discontinued. When you make it customer facing you’d best be prepared to put your weight behind it.