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FAQ on Leaving Google

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462 points mrled | 3 comments | 17 Jan 24 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.901s | source
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erehweb ◴[18 Jan 24 00:20 UTC] No.39035647[source]▶
> Please understand: Google is not a person.

Literally true. On the other hand, the founders still have complete voting control of the company, so really the buck stops with them.

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tsunamifury ◴[18 Jan 24 01:34 UTC] No.39036341[source]▶
How did this person work here for so long and not understand the function of googles special Executive Board — it’s literally three people that control the entire company.

It’s absolutely a person — well 3 to be exact.

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cmrdporcupine ◴[18 Jan 24 03:51 UTC] No.39037564[source]▶
But since about 2017 or so L&S just seemed completely absent. Maybe they're making the choices behind the scenes, that Sundar & Ruth are executing, but it feels like ... not really?

Even the last few TGIFs where they properly attended they seemed very much spaced out of things.

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tsunamifury ◴[18 Jan 24 16:38 UTC] No.39043904[source]▶
My read was L and S were spaced out because the issues googlers kept ranting about were so outside the scope of issues the company was facing.

Workers became increasingly obsessed with political and social issues while the company was dealing with an ultra hostile administration.

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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[18 Jan 24 20:43 UTC] No.39047412[source]▶
Nah, L&S got bored running an advertising company and moved on. Around the time when they did the Alphabet transition, I attended a few TGIFs where S was there and speaking, and people had tough questions about the whole Alphabet thing (in particular the PA I was a part of, Access & Energy [which included Fiber and what became Google WiFi] had been spun out as a "bet" but nobody could answer basic questions like: how will perf, payroll, GSUs, transfers, etc. work. And S just seemed like a deer in headlights about all this stuff people were asking about. He seemed to think the only things being spun off into bets were groups building rockets or doing genetics and stuff.

Anyways, that's about when they started moving on. They got bored.

Nothing about whatever social/woke stuff you're intimating here. Sounds like you have a hammer and you're looking for nails to hi.

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2. tsunamifury ◴[18 Jan 24 20:50 UTC] No.39047499[source]▶
huh? This got a bit attacking for no reason...
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3. cmrdporcupine ◴[18 Jan 24 21:06 UTC] No.39047726[source]▶
Sorry, maybe I misread what you were intimating with the social issues stuff. I didn't really get the sense of that from the inside. Not then, anyways.