In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is “genuinely struggling” with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official
At company's weekly town hall with employees, executives assail leaks and defend hiring DHS official
Washington Post Greg Bensinger
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@sophaskins
Cron Mom
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Literally no corporate leader has ever said “we take employee trust very seriously” and at the same time actually taken employee trust seriously https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@gregbensinger
Greg Bensinger
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Leaked: Google CEO @sundarpichai concedes he is “struggling” with transparency, culture demands at closed-door meeting @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@justkelly_ok
@justkelly_ok
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Yeah well, this is what happens after DECADES of taking the hands-off approach to harmful employees. Oh, and maybe paying sexual abusers hundreds of millions in exit money didn't help either. These people refuse to take responsibility, even in private. It makes me sick. https://t…
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@robaeprice
Rob Price
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internal Google meeting complaining about leaks, leaks https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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seems like an understatement https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@dellcam
Dell Cameron
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closed-door meeting. struggling with transparency. i think i see a way out of this https://twitter.com/...
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@dtunkelang
Daniel Tunkelang
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Google's leadership is at least self-aware enough to recognize that has lost the employee trust that was once a hallmark of Google's culture. Question is whether Google's leaders will ever be able to earn back that trust. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@rmac18
Ryan Mac
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WaPo has a story with more on Google's fraught all hands meeting yesterday. This claim by a Google VP, as reported by the Post, is not true. Our original story on Taylor made no mention of him formulating the travel ban. We reported he helped defend it. https://www.washingtonpost…