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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by saagarjha on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @04:52PM (#41175231)
Google has offices in San Francisco but it also has offices in South San Francisco, San Bruno, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and San Jose. And probably some other cities I forgot. The "reason" Google has an office anywhere has to do more with "why not" rather than anything else.
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by weitendorf on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:14PM (#41175967)
That's not really how the SF presence developed historically but I admire your confidence
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by saagarjha on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:24PM (#41176077)
Did you mean to reply to me?
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by zamfi on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @05:11PM (#41175424)
Acquisitions.
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by weitendorf on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:15PM (#41175977)
Not the case with the main Google SF office (except now some buildings are indeed the results of acquisitions) but definitely for San Bruno and varied for the other ones.
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by biztos on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:45PM (#41176250)
I had the impression the Google SF office was for capturing that talent that would not be bothered to commute south; but that for most people there it was a career dead end, if you weren’t in Mountain View you weren’t in the game.

At least that’s what the people I know who worked there told me, I don’t have any real inside knowledge and the stories could be wrong despite being plausible.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by zamfi on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @01:21AM (#41178465)
Yeah, like almost every other central-city engineering office of that era, SF was initially a sales office that SF-resident ICs would sometimes work from on Fridays...and then more often, and then eventually teams wanted to move there, and then...and then...
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by metadat on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @09:41PM (#41177434)
I wish I understood what you're getting at, because Google does not consider it's employees at all at this point, it's late stage capitalism sweetie. Is there a point, can you clarify?
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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by piuantiderp on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @01:10PM (#41183310)
Sweetie, it's not that hard, google considered them before.

P.S. Late stage capitalism === Early stage communism

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by metadat on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:42PM (#41185266)
> Late stage capitalism === Early stage communism

How so? Will you please indulge me you explain this a little?

Genuinely curious.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by piuantiderp on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:00PM (#41210375)
I mean, even by Marx's own theory. There will be no communism without capitalism fully unfolding and playing out. How will we know when the difference between one stage and the next? Unless we are talking revolution but that's not what most modern communists have in mind
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