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user-inactivated · 4038 days ago · link · · parent · post: Google Employees Confess the Worst Things About Working at Google

If Google wanted to "do no evil", they'd spin off some worker-owned coops.

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user-inactivated · 4037 days ago · link ·

I remember some article years ago pointing out that it might be evil to take the countries best and brightest and make them do text parsing instead of working on the next great idea.

Google is domesticating our genius.

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forwardslash · 4036 days ago · link ·

I love what tech companies have done for software engineers, such as parallel career tracks so you don't have to go into management if you want to move up, but sometimes it seems like they just want to shoot themselves in the foot. Google makes bright people do dull work and Microsoft fires up to 10% of people on teams even if every single person on that team was the brightest in their field.