At the beginning of 2020, reviewing Google in 2019, you may find that this is a year Google has lost lots of her talents is becoming more and more obvious.
In the last month of 2019, Google founder Peggy Brin both stepped down from Google's parent company Alphabet, announcing the end of an era. According to CNBC, there are actually more senior employees who say goodbye to Google in this year.
Such changes are even noticed by the outside world. Martin Casado, a super angel investor who has invested in twitter, tweeted:
what happened? Google's lose of talent is surprising.
Pechbring did not elaborate on the reasons for their dismissal, but the reasons for the senior employees leaving were put on the hot spot, they said:
Google has changed.
Open and transparent
From Maven, to the Dragonfly Project, to the "father of Android" Andy Rubin sexual harassment scandal, the turmoil between Google employees and management continued for two years.
First, Google participated in the US Department of Defense's AI weapon project Maven, which was jointly criticized by nearly 4,000 employees, and even some employees resigned in protest.
Under internal and external pressure, Google officially announced that it would stop participating in the research and development of AI weapons, but it was exposed that the secret repair path of the Ming Dynasty Chencang: Hiring a crowdsourcing platform in the back to continue AI weapon training.
Later, the "Dragonfly Project" was exposed. Google has repeatedly been protested by internal employees for its ambiguous attitude and opaque and undisclosed promotion methods.
In November 2018, after Google executives chose to cover up the Rubin sexual harassment scandal, Google employees organized strikes and demonstrations for thousands of people (there were more than 1,000 people at the headquarters alone), and shouted that the exit number pointed to Google 's transparency and freedom Savory:
We need transparency, accountability and structural change-we need transparency, accountability and structural adjustment!
It's not over yet. In July 2019, Meredith Whittaker, the main force in Google's ethics oversight and protests, was forced to resign.
She publicly stated that after organizing a general strike against Andy Rubin, she was retaliated by Google and forced to change her job content and reduce her rank.
Raph Levien, a former Google level 6 engineer, believes that events make people feel that Google is no longer the "do no evil" Google.
Colin McMillen, another 9-year veteran who worked at Google, said in an interview with CNBC that he chose to resign naked from Google in early 2019 because of the "improper handling" of the crisis by the Google leadership over the past year, which made him feel himself No longer a member of this organization.
Robert Lord, a software engineer, said more directly:
When I heard that Google gave Andy Rubin $ 90 million in termination compensation, it felt like a dull punch.
At that time, I really felt that I was working for an evil company.
Just in November 2019, Google fired four more protesters demanding policy transparency.
Google employee Timnit Gebru wrote on Twitter that Google is eliminating internal divisions by firing employees.
Google's Big Company Disease
Another change is that Google is getting bigger and bigger.
Google now has more than 100,000 employees, a large number of whom are informal employees. This has also changed the company's culture.
According to CNBC, Graham Neray, CEO of start-up Oso, learned during interviews with senior Google employees that some seniors a thought that Google had become too big and bureaucratic.
And, departments like Google Cloud have undergone major organizational changes, creating many uncertainties.
A former Google engineering director, who asked not to be named, said: In recent years, Google executives have increasingly emphasized numbers. This makes them reluctant to eliminate team members who have actually affected the team's work.
Claire Stapleton, who has worked for Google for 12 years, is also a leader in Google's strike. She left Google in the summer of 2018 and said she was retaliated by Google.
She said that when Larry Page was CEO of Google in 2011, she was worried that Google would fail because of its large scale and too slow action. But now, Page's concerns are becoming a reality:
Many are attracted by Google's free and open management style. But in 2019, the distance between ordinary employees and leadership is getting farther and farther.
Changes in HR
According to former Google employees, in January 2019, Google 's human resources department made a comprehensive reform of how to respond to complaints.
And this change is not good news: employees are no longer in contact with HRBP who knows the situation.
Some employees believe that their needs are outsourced to someone who knows nothing about the actual situation.
Stapleton had this experience. She made a request to the Human Resources Department, which then docked her to a call center in Chicago.
Another research leader, Glasson, who has worked at Google for more than five years, pointed out that her manager had made discriminatory remarks about pregnant women, and when she reported the matter to the Human Resources Department, the department said it would investigate.
What do you think?
But in fact, the investigation didn't really start until she hired a lawyer. And no one came to talk to her about it.
In other words, when Google claims to "completely investigate all acts of discrimination, harassment and retaliation," they may not have actually done so.
Towards destruction or to maturity?
The allegations that former Google employees "Google you changed" have also sparked heated discussion among netizens.
Some people say, how to destroy a great company? like this.
Writer Gideon Rosenblatt said:
I've never seen a crash in trust, especially for a company like Google. The loss of transparency is the main reason.
But others believe that Google has not become evil, but employees are too left wing.
Some netizens said that Google's change is a normal path for growing companies to mature.
reference:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/31/google-veterans-the-company-has-become-unrecognizable.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations
