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Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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[–] Cameri 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Sundar Pichai needs to go. In his tenure there has lead to more bad decisions than good, and now their show horse Google Search, is beginning to stagnate.

They need to turn things around fast if they want to keep their reputation and marketshare from dwindling.

[–] SinningStromgald 30 points 10 months ago

As long as it's on the stock market and the expectation from share holders is infinite growth nothing will change no matter who's in charge.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Stagnating? A lot of people would argue that it's gotten considerably worse than it used to be.

[–] BleatingZombie 4 points 10 months ago

I would probably use the word "fester" instead of "stagnate"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

SEO vs search engines is an arms race. Stagnating means the quality of results declines over time.

[–] aluminium 14 points 10 months ago

A few days ago I got one of the Google IO talks about Android from 2011 recommended on YT. You really can just feel that it was a totally different company. You had devs from Google on stage extremly excitied to show off the cool things they added. Incomparable to now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Agreed, the problem is that Google has zero vision and product roadmap and that responsibility rests on the CEO and the team they have below. They have continually eroded their customers' and users' trust in the company under Sundar's leadership. At some point this has to affect their bottom line at which point he will have to answer to the shareholders.

[–] bitwaba 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is there's no one better to do it. He's not great, but anyone else the board would pick as replacement is going to bow even harder to Wall Street.

[–] APassenger 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is Google turning into IBM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This feels more like the Ballmer period of Microsoft.

[–] bitwaba 1 points 10 months ago

They probably already have...