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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture (www.businessinsider.com)

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'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."

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Corkyskog 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You mean MAANA? I genuinely don't know why Netflix is included, it should just be MAAA...

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

MAAA, the sound of a primal scream of agony. Fitting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Also Microsoft should really be in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Also Meta Horizon, which was a massive flop. And rebranding Oculus, tbf they are pushing innovation in the VR hardware space. But I don't want a whole load of Facebook controlled cameras in my house thank you.