'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing letter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture
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An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai's lack of "visionary leadership."

‘Morale is at an all-time low’: Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and ‘eroded’ culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai’s lack of “visionary leadership.”

  • @EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21•7 months ago

    As a counter-point, what new services or products have any of the FAANG companies released that the average person uses, over the last few years?

    Big tech was built on a handful of runaway successes, and building on moonshot ideas, allowing engineers to work on “the next big thing” without fear of liability.

    Now, if it doesn’t work, you get laid off. At least if you worked for a startup, you’d get enough equity to make a ton of money if it works out…

    Pichal is shit, but so are Zuck, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy, and the two at the helm at Netflix.

    • PxtlEnglish
      7•7 months ago

      Facebook: messenger for kids, which is messenger but with good parental controls. Believe me as a parent I want more products to look at this.

      Also Threads. Jury’s still out if it wins but it’s a good product.

      Netflix buying the long tail of excellent old Android Indie Games to offer as a platform benefit is a fun idea, jury’s still out on that one too.

      But imho the one that’s winning at product development isn’t faang, it’s Microsoft.