Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by phendrenad2 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:19PM
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Google is the expert at scaling, and that probably applies to hiring as well. If someone takes too long to get through onboarding, kicking them out is preferable to allowing it to disrupt onboarding other engineers. Would you waste time trying to debug an oddly broken kubernetes node, or just drop it and bring up a new one?
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Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by nmfisher on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:23AM
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This is probably the most overlooked comment here. I'm guessing that Google just DGAF about any individual employee. They're not short of candidates, so why waste even a tiny amount of time customizing their contract terms when they can just revoke it and move to the next in line.
Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by soup10 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:45AM
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That's not actually what happened, Google, much like any company wants to hire people that are "good team players" "will be loyal to the company", "don't cause trouble", and "show gratitude for the opportunity given to them". So either you play the game or you have enough leverage to get special treatment(or you work somewhere else). They want good corporate drones, not individualists that protest when privacy rights are signed away.
Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by dodobirdlord on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:41AM
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There's also the option to just not install corporate apps on your personal device.
Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by kthejoker2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:31AM
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Exactly, they want cattle, not pets.