Google's Corporate Culture

I think this article explains the situation at Google better than anywhere else: https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear

Yes, I think you are right. I think this is part of growing up pains that Google is going through.Initially you are a cool small company where you're making buttloads of money, people think of you as very cool/smart/hip, you feel great going to work, wearing company's colors in public, every time someone talks about the company it's to praise it and express their envy towards your job. People are encouraged to bring their whole person to work, that improves productivi

Yes. However the poster is just describing, honestly, what life in the trenches at a big company is like. It shouldn't be a surprise that Google is this way now. Large organizations behave in certain ways because of human nature, and GOOG is no exception.Actually I found myself thinking "that's not so bad..."

At Google, no one wants to work on existing things. You must create new product/feature to get promoted. Then you move on and thing gets shutdown. This is direct consequences of their internal incentive structure.

There is nothing toxic about Google’s culture. These are normal events in any organization of this size. They are just as focussed as ever on organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible.

I think Google's situation is due to its promotion culture. As Hasting of Netflix said, culture is all about who gets rewarded and who punished. When so many people got promoted for so-called impact and complexity yet their project ultimately failed, many employees' mentality simply changed to chase short-term personal gain instead of what's right for the company.

My best guess is culture. Google's perks went from a means to allow employees to work longer and harder to an entitlement that actually undermined productivity. It also appears they allowed internal activists to distract and delay the release of various tech–LLMs, for example, that would have given them a multi-year lead. Again, too many do-nothing marketers, PMs, DEI bureaucrats, TPMs, Directors and VPs, not enough actual builders. Maybe this is the blood letting Google needs to get it bac

Considering how many google products have failed in the past and are how divided users are on the existing ones I would question whether google's culture is worth anything at all.Seems to me that many of the big tech companies are losing the reality plot like coked up Hollywood starlets. I think we might see a paradigm shift in tech again soon including how recruitment is carried out.

Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?

I've heard this before about Google, I've never worked there so can't say it's true but if we assume it is: why wouldn't every other tech company also be like this? what makes google uniquely vulnerable to failure modes like this?