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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by bsaul on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:10PM (#26168701)
in my personnal experience, the only kind of companies that are really comfortable to employees (in terms of perks) and adopt a slow rythm, are benefiting from some kind of monopolistic, regulatory situation.

Either public sector companies, or banks & insurance whose business model can't be disrupted that easily because of regulatory pressures.

Giant IT companies from the valley that successfully built a way to lock down users are the other example.

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by sorisos on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:26PM (#26169715)
could also be a niche market product created a decade ago that some other large company depends on. money keeps rolling in with little effort. source: personal experience. the company is no longer in operation but it lasted for a god 30 years.
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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by kazen44 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:56PM (#26172955)
another example is a company which is highly specialised in making a certain thing. (for instance some kind of widget for a specific kind of industrial machine). usually demand is stable enough to keep the company healthy for a long time, but scale up is not necessary because the demand isn't there.
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