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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by Zarath on Saturday May 11, 2019 @12:32PM (#19886973)
When you're working day to day you tend to lose sight of the bigger picture and only focus on the problem you're trying to solve and either let your managers mostly decide what problems you will solve, or just work to get "features" implemented for promotional reasons.
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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by dbbk on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:41PM (#19887361)
I don't accept this excuse. Google engineers are smart people. It's not like they are not aware of what they are building.
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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by dk- on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:17PM (#19887522)
with the exception of the very few people who know how to manage upwards, when you are the bottom rung of the totem pole org chart (and i'm not talking about developer or engineer levels), you have zero say over what comes down from 2 or 3 levels above you.
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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by dbbk on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:43AM (#19891167)
I'm not suggesting they have 'say' over it. I'm saying they are aware of what they're building, and they're choosing to be complicit in it. I don't know if you can easily move to a different project within Google, but they certainly don't have to work at Google if they disagreed with it.
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