Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff

Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by random314 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:04AM (#34467328)

Sundar Pichai is just a bean counter. His innovations are a botched attempt to enter China, throttling promotions in engineering, low balling non FAANG experienced devs when hiring, lay offs, lowering benefits and plastering ads on anything and everything.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by altaltson on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:19AM (#34467463)

I really think things started heading south when Sundar became CEO and proceeded to exchange much of the leadership.

He took over a company that was at the top of its game and fucking ran it into the ground in 4-5 years. He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company for years to come.

I couldn’t believe how quickly and radically Google changed and after a while, many of us cut our loses and left. This layoff got rid of many other long-timers for what seems to be no good reason.

We can only hope that all the solid engineers gravitate toward a company where the leadership is not completely incompetent.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by dougmwne on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:51AM (#34467737)

Sundar is a hired gun. Ask who hired him.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by waiting4shoe2 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:57AM (#34467788)

Sundar's job is to implement Ruth Porat's decisions.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by mardifoufs on Saturday January 21, 2023 @06:05PM (#34471731)

Who?

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by pjdemers on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:34PM (#34468177)

>> He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company

He is up against stiff competition for this award. Even getting nominated is difficult.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by dijit on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:12PM (#34469274)

> He took over a company that was at the top of its game and fucking ran it into the ground in 4-5 years. He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company for years to come.

I worked at Nokia under Stephen Elop.

Sundar has a long way to go.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by fidgewidge on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:21AM (#34476307)

Running the company into the ground whilst it became far bigger richer and more powerful than ever before? Yeesh.

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