Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
by lowercased on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:25AM
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> This is exactly what I suspected Google to be like but I always assumed I was just stereotyping. A bunch of competing teams and internal politics frustrating the ability to have coherence and "synergy".
Interesting, because it seems (from the outside) like that was what Microsoft was like internally for years. Blogs like mini-ms seemed to confirm some of that, but of course that was "just one side" of the story.
Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
by erentz on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:16AM
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That was Microsoft before its transition over the past few years. Essentially every single product it’s own vertical with nothing shared, this went right down to having separate switches and server racks managed by separate people.
It’s quite an amazing transformation Microsoft has gone through, never complete of course, but still impressive.
Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
by platz on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:26AM
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So basically Google is like microsoft?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/readwrite.com/2013/07/11/micros...
I once worked at a startup that made the mistake of hiring an entire remote product team from silicon valley. All they did in the year before they mass resigned was inject drama and politics into everything and force some really bad design decisions that will quite possibly kill the company in a year or so. Got me thinking what it must be like at scale.