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Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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[–] Cameri 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] aluminium 14 points 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago (2 children)

Is Google turning into IBM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This feels more like the Ballmer period of Microsoft.

[–] bitwaba 1 points 9 months ago

They probably already have...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Layoffs fundamentally change the tone of a company in a serious way. I think "chilling" is a good word.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Article link broken for anyone else?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yes

Broken broken, not pay walled

[–] macattack 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Definitely feels reminiscent of the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party" joke. They've been increasingly antagonistic towards their own customers regarding the efficiency of search and numerous other pipelines. It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that they are also being dicks to their own employees

[–] APassenger 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know the worth of this opinion, but it resonates for me. .

I have never worked for Google or an affiliate, so I have no inside take.