I’ve been at Google too and I 100% agree with you on everything you said. Lazy people love the newer environment because they can work harder at politics and focus on sabotaging people’s projects. It’s so frustrating to work there when you actually want to do cool things.
Im at Google and not a fan of the general political moves but let’s be honest, not 100% or what he said is true, you know it if you work there. Also unfortunately he has an incentive to represent the company negatively given his adventure with HR “over a joke”.
I think it is shocking to smart people when they finally realize that management is less concerned about pure analytical problem solving, prioritization, and prudent decisions than running companies on something akin to the Russian Gov't -- power, influence, loyalty.
This is my third video of yours that I watched. I am in the U.S. Military. Like the Corporations you discuss, it is much like a dictatorship. The organization wants people who fall in line and do things the way they want, and don't take a lot of risks. Creativity is stifled. If you have an idea, it often gets stomped out. Even if you come up with a great idea and are able to get it to take off with leadership, good luck getting any credit for what you did. I really like your perspective. Over the past several years, I think I turned on my blinders and have been narrowly focused on trying to perform well at work to get ahead. It has backfired for me, as I have remained at the same rank for the past 7 years. I do think that often promotions are used as a carrot on a stick to dangle in front of you to keep you coming into work every day and trying to do well. These videos are helping me change my perspective. I have a few years left to receive my military pension, and then will likely be in the market for a new, different job, or maybe start my own thing. Regardless, I really love your insights and will keep watching more of your videos.
@@FictionCautious It’s like that at all big tech now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Nvidia, Microsoft or Meta. All these rapid hiring and layoffs just spreading the mediocrity around. Some people just really good at interviewing and latch onto places until they get found out or have to do real work. Then they move onto the next place using the clout from their previous company.
When a video is an example of how a true Glassdoor review should be 😂 Instead of fake positive reviews (probably made by HR) that help inflate the overall score of a company.😅
The same is happening in many big corporations and it's disheartening. The lowering of standards, the extreme bias to one side of the political spectrum, the appearance of hiring random people from the street who just create enormous amount of defects in internal systems and never thinking it is weird that using a feature pretty much always includes filing a bug report and waiting to get someone to take a look to fix the issue manually in their system. Nothing works out of the box. The quality of documentation and communication skills are also on the level of 5-year olds. It's like living in idiocracy.
The problem of launching a bug to a billion people is very scary. I’ve been on that end and understand why at that scale it gets hard to do new things.
When I first saw Google Earth in the early 2000s, I was blown away. The amount of innovation over the next few years was mind boggling; however, it appears that the innovation has been frozen in its tracks over the last 5-10 years. They may be still making a lot of $ BUT no recent innovations come to mind. It is quickly IBM'img itself.
@@WTHenry2023 The Stadia was probably one of the stupidest things they’ve launched. Why would you launch a product in an already saturated space with no moat? Total disaster. I wonder what they ended up doing with all that hardware.
Mediocre people outnumber and conquer - the masses (we discuss two weeks ago the Bell Curve, SD). Smart people set a system where a primitive minority control the majority. Then, the organization decline. Rinse and Repeat.
I have been moving away from Google products actively. I don't want my money to go to corporations that censor free speech and have open extreme political stance.
When the company uses dark patterns to wheedle out 50 cents more from you for RUclips prime or Google one subscription, then it is not Google, it is alphabet.
@@15xgg80 I'm currently in the $450K range annually with base and stock. They could barely pay $300K for the role. I know this is a first world problem 🤣 but not willing to take a $150K haircut.
But a white person is in charge. It's funny that people like you fail to realize that white folks have been handed things forever without being qualified.
I got hired at one of the the top legacy companies in different industries, but could never break into Google. You spent the correct time at Google, being there in the 2010's was the best time.
Same It's hard to fine a non-DEI tech company these days They always lower the standard we expect from a work environment just to pander to morons Very tiresome
Who designed this system in google - running a company is not a democratic process. The risktaking is the essential for innovation. The innovators are alway outliers, if company like google want to do innovation, they have to hire smart outliers, not regulars.
We're fielding new hire quality complaints. A coworker just said they have to chose between quality people or diverse people and she's one of these DEI zealots. It's the same deeply racist thinking people use to fight against voter ID laws.
@@basstradamus1 I left 10 years or so ago and it was bad then. So many cutthroat and political people I had to deal with. I can’t imagine having to work there now. By the time I left, the only good things left were the free lunches and beer on the bus ride home on Fridays. Every time I see TCHO chocolates, it still reminds me of the place.
Nepotism can only say what is good for the group not what is good for the company. Eventually the group is the company with morality based politics, which leads to loss in productivity and insentives.
Mate, you sound very hypocritical here. First, you say that you're all about the company's performance and success but then you don't want to tweak the search algorithm that generates money for the company. Instead, you want to have fun and launch some unreliable new product that may fail which would cost the company a fortune.
What a shame to see our company with such massive potential be led astray with really dumb ideas. I'm sure they must be fixing it. But this has "women" written all over it. Bring your whole self to work? How about, no? How about you check yourself at the door, please, and just bring in the contributing part of you? I mean how far does this go? Will we be running around work naked? Having relations in our cubicles? Or-geeze in the conference rooms? Using needles with the good stuff? This craziness just continues to escalate until it's so out of control that it just can't sustain itself.
😂 I see your point. Not sure where the revenue would come from to make it last but for a while it would be a blast. Well okay, lots of blasts. The scenario where sloppy is good.
@@RichGilbert Because I read the comments earlier, as soon as you publish your video. And, I post two. One independent and one Replay. - Love your work and sincere opinion.
Culture disappeared. Perf is ridiculous. Stack ranking is alive and well. Politics became horrible. Money was good, but after a while I felt like a sellout. I stayed 12 years though. I loved the old Google. People working on person finder after the 2011 quake in Tokyo for free, just because they felt they had too, well... I felt so proud. Nobody told them. Of course afterwards they milked it to death because why not. You just cannot buy this. The old mentality was " you see something wrong? you are empowered, so fix it.". Empowering at its best. In the recent years not that much. I felt like an anormally in my team (and probably was). As a white man working in Japan for a vey long time (where well, I live, and lived before Google) it was fun to be explained by US people how not to be racist. By people who know zero about other countries and project california towards... anywhere really. Totally fine with left politics, but being explained that by racists is ironic.
I disagree - anytime you give into DEI or its current style, you have just screwed the pouch. Standards have not been 'lowered', they have been tossed out the window. And, then begins (or continues) the inevitable crawl to the bottom.
Do you think that a reason for Google supporting LGBTQ so religiously is because in this corporate culture having a family with children is not supported as much as in most large corporations?
No one thinks that... LGBT people have families too, nimrod. People who come up with baseless assumptions like this, that lack any critical thinking whatsoever are exactly the kind of not-so-smart person the video is talking about. Also for the record, Google offers a lot of benefits for families with children. Google supports LGBTQ people because even if “smart people” have left it still isn’t run by people who are entirely bigoted.
My last employer is full of gender equity women in leadership roles. It used to be that leaders were experts who worked more. These new leaders want to lead from the couch at home and feel entitled to a whopping paycheck because “gender pay gap” and equity. Well, the stock market will be in a years long decline, businesses will close, and it will all happen with the women in charge.
My problems with Scrwtoob censorship started when some guy about a year ago denounced me for essentially saying that evolution applies to all species and at all times, with no exceptions... And you would have thought that YT always tries to be science-based?
I’ve been at Google too and I 100% agree with you on everything you said.
Lazy people love the newer environment because they can work harder at politics and focus on sabotaging people’s projects. It’s so frustrating to work there when you actually want to do cool things.
Im at Google and not a fan of the general political moves but let’s be honest, not 100% or what he said is true, you know it if you work there. Also unfortunately he has an incentive to represent the company negatively given his adventure with HR “over a joke”.
I think it is shocking to smart people when they finally realize that management is less concerned about pure analytical problem solving, prioritization, and prudent decisions than running companies on something akin to the Russian Gov't -- power, influence, loyalty.
Companies are somehow sowjet dictatorships.
You think your government is different?
Replace "oligarchy" with "establishment"
This is my third video of yours that I watched. I am in the U.S. Military. Like the Corporations you discuss, it is much like a dictatorship. The organization wants people who fall in line and do things the way they want, and don't take a lot of risks. Creativity is stifled. If you have an idea, it often gets stomped out. Even if you come up with a great idea and are able to get it to take off with leadership, good luck getting any credit for what you did.
I really like your perspective. Over the past several years, I think I turned on my blinders and have been narrowly focused on trying to perform well at work to get ahead. It has backfired for me, as I have remained at the same rank for the past 7 years. I do think that often promotions are used as a carrot on a stick to dangle in front of you to keep you coming into work every day and trying to do well.
These videos are helping me change my perspective. I have a few years left to receive my military pension, and then will likely be in the market for a new, different job, or maybe start my own thing. Regardless, I really love your insights and will keep watching more of your videos.
The first people were smart. Those who came after them got the reputation for it.
It's washing off quickly.
@@FictionCautious It’s like that at all big tech now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Nvidia, Microsoft or Meta. All these rapid hiring and layoffs just spreading the mediocrity around.
Some people just really good at interviewing and latch onto places until they get found out or have to do real work. Then they move onto the next place using the clout from their previous company.
Ideas constantly being rejected takes away incentive; pretty soon you're just putting in your time and dreaming of bigger things.
Great video. Honest, insightful, and well-delivered. I'm a tech guy former consultant and this rings very true to me.
Thank you for all your videos and speaking on this topic ❤
When a video is an example of how a true Glassdoor review should be 😂
Instead of fake positive reviews (probably made by HR) that help inflate the overall score of a company.😅
The same is happening in many big corporations and it's disheartening. The lowering of standards, the extreme bias to one side of the political spectrum, the appearance of hiring random people from the street who just create enormous amount of defects in internal systems and never thinking it is weird that using a feature pretty much always includes filing a bug report and waiting to get someone to take a look to fix the issue manually in their system. Nothing works out of the box. The quality of documentation and communication skills are also on the level of 5-year olds. It's like living in idiocracy.
Same pattern for every company. Agile, innovate, create, win, protect the castle, stagnate and the next disrupter arises...
🥱 YUP OVER IT
Thanks for your insightful videos. As a corporate employee I can relate to many of your analyses.
The problem of launching a bug to a billion people is very scary. I’ve been on that end and understand why at that scale it gets hard to do new things.
When I first saw Google Earth in the early 2000s, I was blown away. The amount of innovation over the next few years was mind boggling; however, it appears that the innovation has been frozen in its tracks over the last 5-10 years. They may be still making a lot of $ BUT no recent innovations come to mind. It is quickly IBM'img itself.
@@WTHenry2023 The Stadia was probably one of the stupidest things they’ve launched. Why would you launch a product in an already saturated space with no moat? Total disaster. I wonder what they ended up doing with all that hardware.
@@a012345 hardware inside box was normal Lenovo/HP and Dell. And pads were compatible with other stuff.
I am in the 2nd company that favours DEI over skills. Guess what? Smart and intelligent people leave.
Mediocre people outnumber and conquer - the masses (we discuss two weeks ago the Bell Curve, SD). Smart people set a system where a primitive minority control the majority. Then, the organization decline. Rinse and Repeat.
Intelligent people value meritocracy. You cant have meritocracy with DEI.
Equity and inclusion is just communism repackaged.
Very surprising. 🙄
My pronouns are Heeeee/Heeeeee, and I moonwalk into meetings!
😂❤ Thank you for my chuckle!
I have been moving away from Google products actively. I don't want my money to go to corporations that censor free speech and have open extreme political stance.
Me too. I used to pay them $500 a day for AdWords and stopped completely. My sales went down about $500 a day, so I am making the same.
😂😂
Err, you on YT bro lol
I am trying too. It’s not the same company anymore.
Hi, your videos have been very helpful for me. Thank you!
I believe Google had a motto when it was founded "Don't Be Evil."
They are clearly the opposite of that now.
Yep. It’s now “do the right thing” 🙄
When the company uses dark patterns to wheedle out 50 cents more from you for RUclips prime or Google one subscription, then it is not Google, it is alphabet.
Briliant video ! replace "Google" with many of the todays large corporations and it will still be valid
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
I turned down an offer from Google two years ago. I dont regret turning down the offer now that I look back.
why did you turn it down how much was your offer?
@@15xgg80 I'm currently in the $450K range annually with base and stock. They could barely pay $300K for the role. I know this is a first world problem 🤣 but not willing to take a $150K haircut.
Every company is sliding towards DEI. Even law enforcement agencies. I think we are on the fast track to becoming the Boeing of our Industry.
we need more women in secret service 😂😂😂
But a white person is in charge.
It's funny that people like you fail to realize that white folks have been handed things forever without being qualified.
If it’s Boeing, I am NOT going!
@@mishandr6717 yeah because if it's Boeing it may not even make it off the ground.
Considering other incidents that's probably a good day then.
I got hired at one of the the top legacy companies in different industries, but could never break into Google. You spent the correct time at Google, being there in the 2010's was the best time.
What does "who you sleep with" have anything to do with work? Bring your whole self needs to go along with "we're a family".
"Left" is not Liberal. "Left" is so far Left of Liberal, you cannot call Liberals "Left".
Good analysis. 👍
I'm an EE.
The DEI culture is destroying the company I work for.
It might be time to move on.
Thanks
???
Same
It's hard to fine a non-DEI tech company these days
They always lower the standard we expect from a work environment just to pander to morons
Very tiresome
@@dranon0o it's going to catch up with them. good luck my friend👍
I am in big pharma- same shit. Moving on!
It is a great crash. It is perfect! Build new companies!
I understand this, especially about the people driven by ego and control instead of intelligence and performance. What would you suggest?
Were you one of the hyper-smart people or one of the ones diluting the pool?
Bring your whole self to Google or to other big tech companies, unless you think differently.
Who designed this system in google - running a company is not a democratic process. The risktaking is the essential for innovation. The innovators are alway outliers, if company like google want to do innovation, they have to hire smart outliers, not regulars.
What about Google Cloud (GCP)?
Like your first relationship
We're fielding new hire quality complaints. A coworker just said they have to chose between quality people or diverse people and she's one of these DEI zealots. It's the same deeply racist thinking people use to fight against voter ID laws.
And Google+ whether home grown or bought was also a complete dud.
He/she/it/they who controls your speech....
He/she/it/they who controls the spice, controls the universe.
GCS was internally developed, was it not?
All truth about Google, i left 1y ago as could not stand many of those issues.
@@basstradamus1 I left 10 years or so ago and it was bad then. So many cutthroat and political people I had to deal with. I can’t imagine having to work there now.
By the time I left, the only good things left were the free lunches and beer on the bus ride home on Fridays. Every time I see TCHO chocolates, it still reminds me of the place.
Nepotism can only say what is good for the group not what is good for the company. Eventually the group is the company with morality based politics, which leads to loss in productivity and insentives.
Indians are good at it..
Mate, you sound very hypocritical here. First, you say that you're all about the company's performance and success but then you don't want to tweak the search algorithm that generates money for the company. Instead, you want to have fun and launch some unreliable new product that may fail which would cost the company a fortune.
So where are the hyper smart people going now?
To smaller companies or starting their own companies.
Im writing philosophy papers. Like for example How Self-Reference Builds the World author Cosmin Visan. Im former CERN scientist.
What a shame to see our company with such massive potential be led astray with really dumb ideas. I'm sure they must be fixing it. But this has "women" written all over it. Bring your whole self to work? How about, no? How about you check yourself at the door, please, and just bring in the contributing part of you?
I mean how far does this go? Will we be running around work naked? Having relations in our cubicles? Or-geeze in the conference rooms? Using needles with the good stuff? This craziness just continues to escalate until it's so out of control that it just can't sustain itself.
Sounds great 😊
I say we just do all of it… the WHOLE of it
😂 I see your point.
Not sure where the revenue would come from to make it last but for a while it would be a blast.
Well okay, lots of blasts. The scenario where sloppy is good.
You comment section had deleted at least 50 percent!!!!
I’ve heard this before that comments are being deleted but I can’t see it. How do you know things are being deleted?
@@RichGilbert Because I read the comments earlier, as soon as you publish your video. And, I post two. One independent and one Replay. - Love your work and sincere opinion.
Culture disappeared. Perf is ridiculous. Stack ranking is alive and well. Politics became horrible.
Money was good, but after a while I felt like a sellout. I stayed 12 years though. I loved the old Google. People working on person finder after the 2011 quake in Tokyo for free, just because they felt they had too, well... I felt so proud. Nobody told them. Of course afterwards they milked it to death because why not. You just cannot buy this. The old mentality was " you see something wrong? you are empowered, so fix it.". Empowering at its best. In the recent years not that much. I felt like an anormally in my team (and probably was).
As a white man working in Japan for a vey long time (where well, I live, and lived before Google) it was fun to be explained by US people how not to be racist. By people who know zero about other countries and project california towards... anywhere really. Totally fine with left politics, but being explained that by racists is ironic.
People go to Google for the $$$
I disagree - anytime you give into DEI or its current style, you have just screwed the pouch. Standards have not been 'lowered', they have been tossed out the window. And, then begins (or continues) the inevitable crawl to the bottom.
He is juat beeing polite..
If advancement in any organization is about who you know and only indirectly about merit, DEI changes little if anything.
Illusions ? We need to have job , but we are going to have everything without job.
My dream job is to be NEET
Do you think that a reason for Google supporting LGBTQ so religiously is because in this corporate culture having a family with children is not supported as much as in most large corporations?
No one thinks that... LGBT people have families too, nimrod.
People who come up with baseless assumptions like this, that lack any critical thinking whatsoever are exactly the kind of not-so-smart person the video is talking about.
Also for the record, Google offers a lot of benefits for families with children.
Google supports LGBTQ people because even if “smart people” have left it still isn’t run by people who are entirely bigoted.
Interesting.
i.e. DEI also means hiring people with diverse IQs and capabilities, not just the smartest, because such diversity is important lol
My last employer is full of gender equity women in leadership roles. It used to be that leaders were experts who worked more. These new leaders want to lead from the couch at home and feel entitled to a whopping paycheck because “gender pay gap” and equity.
Well, the stock market will be in a years long decline, businesses will close, and it will all happen with the women in charge.
Disney Star Wars is a perfect example.
I want to get in touch i feel you can really help me
My problems with Scrwtoob censorship started when some guy about a year ago denounced me for essentially saying that evolution applies to all species and at all times, with no exceptions... And you would have thought that YT always tries to be science-based?
random but you look a lot like Bradley cooper
Rejected them in 2015/16 for health
Mountain View extreme left politically you say. But they are happy to show users far right ads and yt videos for money
you’re right. I met a lot of dumb people working at Google.
Glassholes.
DEI is nothing but reservation and allowing mediocre.
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