Best employer for years, but going downhill now
Best employer for years, but going downhill now
Great people to work with. Lots of opportunities for a wide impact. Challenging problems to solve. Powerful tools at your fingertips.
- Flailing product strategy; averse to take meaningful risks.
- Withering company culture; execs just pay lip service now to the mechanisms that were the foundation of trust within Google.
- Downward spiral in perks and entitlements.
Google went into "sum-zero" mode between execs and non-exec employees. That basically destroyed trust, both ways. Execs are in for a sum-negative result. But, yes, extractive policies are way easier to implement than taking risks with new and original products. We maybe don't do those anymore.
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