Life at Google - Something to ponder deeply about working at a large company Larry, Sergey, Omid (huge AOL deal), and Salar (invented the auction) created a consumer product and financial juggernaut like the world has not ever seen and will not again see in our lifetimes. Everyone else is just along for the ride. They created the wave and now 30,000 Googlers surf it everyday. Heres something to ponder. The only meaningful organic products to come out of Google were Search and then AdSense. (Android - awesome, purchased. YouTube - awesome, purchased, etc. Larry and/or Sergey were obviously intimately involved in both. Maps - awesome, purchased. Google Plus is a flop for all non-Googlers globally, Chrome browser is great, but no direct monetization (indirectly protects search), the world has passed the Chrome OS by... etc. ) Fast forward 14 years, and the next big thing from Google, I bet, will be Google Glass, and guess who PMd it. Sergey Brin. Tiny number of wave creators, huge number of surfers. Too many great people, doing work that just doesnt matter, and theyre being paid off not to care in an explicit effort to starve the rest of the valley of extraordinary talent. Otherwise, its the best place to be. Excerpt from a large thread on Quora quora/What-is-the-worst-part-about-working-at-Google
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:27:40 +0000
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