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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by RestlessMind on Thursday February 23, 2017 @12:01PM (#13715449)
> Companies who derive the vast majority of their revenue from advertising will have their culture and technological choices shaped by the underlying business needs.

I worked at Google, on Search. My work (and my team and org's work) was never affected by Ads and how Ads worked. We just focused on making Search better. So I object to your imagination of how Google culture and choices are shaped.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by mercutio2 on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:23PM (#13719443)
I have many friends who have worked in Search in the last decade.

You seem to be interpreting "incentives and culture" as "explicit directives or pressure from Ads". There are many ways for culture to grow. Chinese walls can prevent many overt pathways from growing, but they aren't an antidote to the overall role incentives play inside companies.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by RestlessMind on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:26PM (#13767965)
Do you mind sharing some specific examples, rather than speaking in abstract?
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