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mahesh2k:
If you look at it from non-techie angle, that google employee's rant looks similar to cheerleader complaining about her work and not getting noticed. I mean seriously this looks like cry for attention.

1) Oh look facebook is leader in market, let's beat them with G+. what ? no one is looking at G+ ? ..... cry sob sob sob...

2) Hey amazon is capturing internet with their shop and products, that's bad we have to stop them, we are the good guys in privacy and user caring so lets beat them by being leader in their domain, let's copy them. what ? not working ? ..... cry sob sob sob...

3) MS and apple are leader in OS wars ? that's bad, let's beat them... copy linux, add web only features and sell... what ? not working...? ..... cry sob sob sob...

4) Tired of IE and mozzila, opera ? lets create a platform to spy on users and tie them with our products and networks... what ? not working ? screw you all... Eff all of you... cry sob sob sob...

Nothing is working except adwords ? cry..sob sob sob.

We need to be leader to control the internet or else our employees (which are fanbois at it's best) are going to cry like cheerleaders. We need platform. Cry...sob sob. 

 ;)

40hz:
We need to be leader to control the internet or else our employees (which are fanbois at it's best) are going to cry like cheerleaders. We need platform. Cry...sob sob.
-mahesh2k (October 13, 2011, 02:25 PM)
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Umm...yes...they do actually.

If your business is based on an SOA model, and your product is SAS (very smart) as opposed to merely vending out your raw data collections (very dumb), then developing a robust and versatile platform is exactly what they need to do.

Minor point: if this screed came from some lumpen programmer sitting in a back room over at Google, it might just be a whiny cheerleader talking. But this particular developer has some experience and a track record behind him. So it packs a little more street cred than many rants. And many in the industry, with even better credentials, find much to agree with him about. It will be interesting to see if Google eventually does.

I personally have to give him credit. Having worked for Fortune 500 (and in once case Fortune #5) for a number of years, I can appreciate the balls it took to call it like he saw it - even if it was intended for internal consumption. I've seen guys with 20 years in (and a family to support) escorted out through personnel with pink slip in hand for saying less while in a closed staff meeting.

It's one thing to slag your company for self-destructive business decisions. That you can sometimes get away with.

But the one time you won't be forgiven is if  the boys at the top know you're right.

That degree of candor and 'rightness' is seldom tolerated in a large corporation. 8)

mahesh2k:
I agree on that part, for which i do have respect for this guy as his post made it up on CNN today. I can't imagine MS, Oracle, Dell and other Fortune 500 company employees ranting at cafeteria like this , let alone blog post or social media post. There are very few companies out their offering creativity space and freedom to employees. Google and yahoo are one of them. Rest of the other companies seem to have policies to treat their workers as "corporate whores slaves".

zridling:
I personally have to give him credit. Having worked for Fortune 500 (and in once case Fortune #5) for a number of years, I can appreciate the balls it took to call it like he saw it - even if it was intended for internal consumption. I've seen guys with 20 years in (and a family to support) escorted out through personnel with pink slip in hand for saying less while in a closed staff meeting.-40hz (October 13, 2011, 06:48 PM)
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Indeed, and to Google's credit. Trick is, if they want to keep guys like Steve Yegge, they need to listen to him, not just nod and walk away. I worked for one [wealthy NASDAQ] company for years and watched them escort the best people out the door for merely wanting to modernize the code, the UI, documentation, etc. It was a ugly situation. Now, no one will work for them unless they're highly overpaid. Usually corporations don't suffer karma!

Tuxman:
Google needs to calm down a bit. All these experiments. G+ is their third try (at least!) to do something "social".

Chrome is successful; so successful that Mozilla tries to copy its look&feel. But no innovations are added. Everything has been there before.
Same goes for Google Mail: It is not enough to take Hotmail and add some "you have $rand() GB space!" hint. Oh, wait: It is.

Google Music? "Hey, spotify/simfy/grooveshark have customers. Let's pretend we are better!"

Google is the Apple of the 201x decade. Old, grown ideas packed into aggressive marketing. Bleh.
Even Google Search sucks in terms of quality. Quantity is not everything.

Time to learn that, Google.

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