Discussion

• @petergyang Peter Yang on x

  An engineer and ex-founder wrote a long post on Google's culture. This line stands out to me: https://twitter.com/...

• @mwseibel Michael Seibel on x

  To many growth stage startups are racing to create the team sizes and organizational structures that (if not very careful) will be the roots of their own disruption. This is the core problem that Google has faced for a while and it's slowly killing them: https://medium.com/...

• @mukund Mukund Mohan on x

  Superb piece on management, culture and company decay. $GOOGL can still be a great company but needs an intervention The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn $GOOGL https://medium.com/...

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  “Very few Googlers come into work thinking they serve a customer or user. They usually serve some process ("I'm responsible for reviewing privacy design") or some technology ("I keep the CI/CD system working"). They serve their manager or their VP." https://medium.com/... https:/…

• @rajsarkar Raj Sarkar on x

  This is extremely hard to read and the polar opposite of what we all experienced at Google during its heydays. Google needs Larry and Sergey back at the helms - It has lost its way. https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  “Google has 175,000+ capable and well-compensated employees who get very little done quarter over quarter, year over year. Like mice, they are trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews,... and reorgs” https://medium.com/...

• @dsivakumar D. Sivakumar on x

  I was very positive about Google in part 2 of my series on ChatGPT and Search (posted couple days ago): https://dsivakumar.substack.com/ ... Counterpoint: Scathing article on Google's culture by a researcher-turned-entrepreneur who spent 3 years at G Cloud: https://medium.com/...

• @saaswiz @saaswiz on x

  Well said https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Every big tech company hits this point. The remarkable thing about Satya Nadella is that he pulled Microsoft out of this malaise. The question is whether Sundar is the right person to do the same for Google. https://twitter.com/...

• @zebriez Brie Wolfson on x

  “defensive process” is a term I learned from @chughesjohnson and it can kill an org and suck the joy out of work if you let it. a stunning portrait of what it looks like when defensive process takes over. whole thing is worth reading. maybe even twice. https://medium.com/... http…