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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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'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."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These recent months it seems the reviewing and selling, the hype-mongering, is more about remaining employed than it is a pay bump.

It's a sad state of affairs when the inexperienced code-olympiads you hire need to transition partially from devs-as-engineers to introverts-as-showmen. It's like they hired apples, made them work like oranges, and now only keep the ones who can also be dolphins.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Haha good analogy. The "remaining employed" is a point i missed. Broad layoffs in my company would probably make me do the same i suppose.