Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn’t always used to be like that.
Their company culture sounds like shit. They should be more like Valve. Make a great thing and then forget it exists until it sucks just because it’s too old.
I’ve heard it’s because creating/reforming things rather than maintaining them is more valued at Google with their current company culture.
Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn’t always used to be like that.
Their company culture sounds like shit. They should be more like Valve. Make a great thing and then forget it exists until it sucks just because it’s too old.
A friend who worked at Meta said pretty concisely, “You get rewarded for coming up with something new, not improving something old.”
Proving once again that it’s usually management that tanks a company… Yet they get the golden parachutes
It’s pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they’ll kill it soon!