Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
by zaphar on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:26AM
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Admittedly, when I was at Google, I only worked on three different products. However, while there I had no real deadlines. My work was done when it was done. Performance was measured in quality and impact. This was in fact a part of the culture that was communicated to my team on multiple occasions.
With that said, there is some indication from the outside that the culture is changing. It can be difficult to sustain culture over time, especially in the face of massive success.
Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
by wolco on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:52AM
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I wish more companies came closer to this.
Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla
by walljm on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:55PM
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its not always possible to sustain that philosophy of work economically for all businesses. I'm not defending every case of it, just that there are legitimate reasons why speed is valued over quality in certain cases.
Then as engineer what can you do? Either assume toxic Management (and switch Jobs) or do a subset of what you would usually do, and that means optimize for your own browser first and only work on bugs known to your management for the other browsers.