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Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by jvagner on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:25PM (#20687313)
At a certain size, corporate roadmaps and people management are inevitably political. Google modifying their search criteria to participate in China's market.. is political. Google's HR department working towards demographic goals.. is political (I'm not judging its political-ness, but it ended up being political, didn't it?).

Each of the major FAAMG companies has a political/dominance issue of some kind, one that comes to mind more immediately than all the political issues associated with those companies. Taking a swag at it:

* Facebook: privacy - exploitation (personal data exploitation)

* Amazon: automation

* Apple: privacy - enforced (withholding from gov't)

* Microsoft: [I'm not even sure, they're flying low.. perhaps monopolization, or government backdoors?]

* Google: politicization/curation

I would suggest that Google's the clearest "ideation" company here, where censorship/curation is the most core part of their business model (Facebook is social media, Google is a borg-like machine collection all of the Internet and then putting algorithms around access to it), and most prone to politicization crossing the internal/external cultural barrier. [edit:spelling]

Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by Maximus9000 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:32PM (#20687399)
Microsoft is the oldest of them all. Microsoft had its own "teenage years" problems... maybe it has less problems these days because it's more mature?
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by humanrebar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:56PM (#20687655)
The article mentioned participating with China in state surveillance and censorship.
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by jvagner on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:12PM (#20688653)
Yes, but, they're not taking as much public heat for that as other companies, I would say.
Re:Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company... by humanrebar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:18PM (#20688705)
True, if we're talking about PR problems and not just moral and ethical issues, Microsoft seems to be faring relatively well at the moment.