• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    6 months ago

    It isn’t a problem with long term employees. The problem is that promotion at Google typically relies on developing new products. Long term employees aren’t incentivized to improve existing products.

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      6 months ago

      Oh that’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of this. Is it an unspoken policy? Or its an over reliance on “innovation first” pseudo-management?

      • Balder@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I think it’s more like a pattern observed in many of the blog posts about the reasons ex-employees left Google after a while.