‘Morale is at an all-time low’: Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and ‘eroded’ culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai’s lack of “visionary leadership.”
“Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision,”
That’s a bar.
hightrix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is anyone surprised? Brilliant engineers going to work at Google expecting to work on world changing software and instead work on selling more ads.
How miserable.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 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
hightrix@lemmy.world 11 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.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 11 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.