Re:Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
by scarface74 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @02:26PM
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Who do you think gets promoted within Google what are their incentives? If engineers slowly move up the ranks based on the same culture and incentives - creating products that are soon abandoned. The entire culture of Google is not conducive to the diversification they need as ad sales become less profitable.
Re:Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
by coldtea on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:32PM
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The culture is shaped from the leadership. There's no requirement a company needs to promote developers to strategic thinking positions.
Re:Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
by scarface74 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:49PM
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There isn’t a requirement but from the outside it looks like that’s what’s happening.
Sure, but how are those things relevant? Those are strategic decisions, not decisions made by developers -- and don't concern what we're discussing, if the devs they hire are good for the company.
If somebody at Google C-level decided "let's close down Search and Ads, and just make kitchen juicers" their profits would also tank.
But that's not related to if the devs they hire are good for them. Unless their profit is hampered by dev output (and not one of the other reasons it can go down), their devs are fine for them.