Re:Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 To...
by xiphias2 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:15PM
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I was working at Google at the Eric Schmidt days, Larry Page days and Sundar days (not anymore) and maybe Larry not being on the TGIFs is not that a big thing, and I'm not questioning Sundar's authority, much more his transparency in leadership.
Eric Schmidt was by far the most transparent CEO while knowing exactly what secrets he had to keep. He understood how important it is to have some direct communication with all engineers, even if it's just one way (here's a link to a fresh interview with him from yesterday where he talks about the old Google days: https://tim.blog/2019/04/09/eric-schmidt/).
With Sundar TGIF questions seem just like a formality: he tries to answer in a way to only tell things that are anyways available to everybody, not helping the employees to understand the strategy of the company and going together.
And in reality before I quit, all I saw was team leaders, managers and project managers fighting eachother on who's doing what project, and the engineers being victims of these fights (though still well paid victims). For me the magic of being and working at Google went away.
Eric Schmidt was by far the most transparent CEO while knowing exactly what secrets he had to keep. He understood how important it is to have some direct communication with all engineers, even if it's just one way (here's a link to a fresh interview with him from yesterday where he talks about the old Google days: https://tim.blog/2019/04/09/eric-schmidt/).
With Sundar TGIF questions seem just like a formality: he tries to answer in a way to only tell things that are anyways available to everybody, not helping the employees to understand the strategy of the company and going together.
And in reality before I quit, all I saw was team leaders, managers and project managers fighting eachother on who's doing what project, and the engineers being victims of these fights (though still well paid victims). For me the magic of being and working at Google went away.