Culture
Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company…
There’s almost too much here to analyze but a good (long) summary of the changing culture of Google. They’re often cited as the modern company paradigm of transparency, autonomy and networks of employees. Seems to be unraveling 20 years on. Was the principle of not checking your personal views at the door a good one?
ON A BRIGHT Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company’s offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike area dotted with picnic tables and a shade structure that resembles a giant game of pickup sticks. Many of them held up handmade signs: “Proud Iranian-American Googler,” “Even Introverts Are Here,” and of course, “Don’t Be Evil!” written in the same kindergarten colors as the Google logo.
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/
