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.
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.
I’ve heard it’s because creating/reforming things rather than maintaining them is more valued at Google with their current company culture.
A friend who worked at Meta said pretty concisely, “You get rewarded for coming up with something new, not improving something old.”
It’s pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they’ll kill it soon!
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.
This is America in general.
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.