Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “juice the next 3 months.”

  Thats it. Thats the whole strategy each exec uses until they leave.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How can I get one of these jobs? Important detail I’m not rich.

    Seems like a low skill job.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quick answer this one question.

      You are given a button that upon pressing kills 100,000 people. The button does nothing else.

      Do you press the button?

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      • Promethiel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course not. Why would I risk limiting our market share that way? I demonstrate synergy and the ability to run an agile ship by instead outsourcing development of an app charging 1,000,000,000 people $15 monthly for the privilege of pressing the button and posting that they weren’t it this month. Then I press it, because we must make sure our actions align with increasing shareholder value.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And if no, how much money would it take to get you to push the button?

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      • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No… No, why would I do something like that?

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• Dinsmore@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a recent podcast talking about this if you’re interested - omny.fm/…/the-man-that-destroyed-google-search

  TLDR; they fired the guy largely responsible for building google search and replaced him with the guy running google ads.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, and that’s why monopolies are bad. Once you get a dominant position, the way to increase profits is by abusing your market position. And publicly traded companies need to increase profits because that’s what shareholders expect.

    In this case, reducing the quality of search means people need to search more often, which means they see more ads. As a double-whammy, if you improve the relevance of the ad results while reducing the relevance of the regular results, you get more click-through on the ads. So Google has little incentive, while it has a dominant position, of having a good search product. They’ll only care again if that dominance gets threatened.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s called

  Late State Capitalism

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I already made this comment on a completely different post, but it’s funny to see it’s fruition. McDonald’s executives bitching that fast food price increases have priced a lot of their low income customers off their menu… like they had no hand in it

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. They have let go people that worked there for over 15 years.

  I believe what Mark Zuckerberg said about the tech layoffs, streamlining by getting rid of more management roles.

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could imagine them letting AI (or offshore workers) manage everything, and keeping the managers around with chatbots reporting in to the managers, so they wouldn’t know they were being replaced.

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