Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

guest · Aug 14, 2019

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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
August 13, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/

In a larger sense, Google found itself and its culture deeply maladapted to a new set of political, social, and business imperatives. To invent products like Gmail, Earth, and Translate, you need coddled geniuses free to let their minds run wild. But to lock down lucrative government contracts or expand into coveted foreign markets, as Google increasingly needed to do, you need to be able to issue orders and give clients what they want.

For this article, WIRED spoke with 47 current and former Google employees. Most of them requested anonymity. Together, they described a period of growing distrust and disillusionment inside Google that echoed the fury roaring outside the company's walls.
And in all that time, Google could never quite anticipate the right incoming collision.
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vasa1 · Aug 14, 2019

Thanks! Interesting read but very incomplete.

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