Google is a global company with employees from many, many different countries working in offices all over the world. Many different social norms. "Corporate America"'s prevailing wisdom can not be blanket applied to all…
+1 to this. I've been there 6 years and it has had essentially zero impact on me. I usually only find out about it when people are making fun of it on memegen.
Correct. There is debate from other places of course, but 99% of people just get on with their job and leave the arguments up to those in MTV who give a shit. MTV can be very blinkered - rightly or wrongly the people…
Not really no. I think at this stage, anyone at Google knows how it works. If you are ethically opposed to advertising, then Google may not the place you should choose to work at. Google does not build a dossier up on…
Posting from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. There are a lot of internal discussion groups - it is just an internal Google groups thing so anyone can create a group about anything. Often they are purely work…
Google is a global company with employees from many, many different countries working in offices all over the world. Many different social norms. "Corporate America"'s prevailing wisdom can not be blanket applied to all…
+1 to this. I've been there 6 years and it has had essentially zero impact on me. I usually only find out about it when people are making fun of it on memegen.
Correct. There is debate from other places of course, but 99% of people just get on with their job and leave the arguments up to those in MTV who give a shit. MTV can be very blinkered - rightly or wrongly the people…
Not really no. I think at this stage, anyone at Google knows how it works. If you are ethically opposed to advertising, then Google may not the place you should choose to work at. Google does not build a dossier up on…
Posting from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. There are a lot of internal discussion groups - it is just an internal Google groups thing so anyone can create a group about anything. Often they are purely work…