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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by aurareturn on Friday August 16, 2024 @03:55AM (#41264177)
Not really. When I lived and worked in Silicon Valley in the early 2010s, we used to joke that Yahoo! is where you go to retire.

I think Google is starting to become that.

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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by tonyhart7 on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:12AM (#41264278)
funny because back then if you ex yahoo that means you got some above average engineering skills
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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by meiraleal on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:26AM (#41264707)
That was the case for Google 10 years ago. Nowadays being an ex-googler gives one a not so bright aura
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Re:Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk by krisoft on Friday August 16, 2024 @06:22AM (#41265011)
> Not really.

What is not really about piyuv’s comment?

> There are places to hide in these companies for non-productive workers.

And that is where the leadership issue lies. Either because they can’t identify them, or can’t motivate them, or can’t fire them. Who is responsible for doing that? I don’t think it is the janitors. It is the leadership, very much.

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