‘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.”

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years 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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      2 years ago

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

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