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A comment on Google's formula to retain women: Longer maternity leave. Parent comment

Re:Google's formula to retain women: Longer maternity leave by gruseom on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:29AM (#4428025)
What's "badging"?

Also, re acquired company "eating [acquirer] from within" and

"You might argue that Doubleclick has been steadily doing that to Google"

... that's pretty interesting. I remember thinking "weird cultural mismatch" when Google acquired Doubleclick. Could you expand on this?

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Re:Google's formula to retain women: Longer maternity leave by rachelbythebay on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:16PM (#4428864)
Badging is when you take your ProxCard (which is glued between two photo badges) and pass it over a reader in front of the cafe. The attached laptop then plays the DING! noise from Gattaca. No, really, it does. Except when it played the vuvuzela sound.

As for Doubleclick, well, that one's harder to explain. It sure seems like the company ate something it couldn't handle. "Ugh, bad pie."

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