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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai's lack of "visionary leadership."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who would have thought that overtly replacing your motto in such a way that everyone knows the new default is now "Be Evil" would have a negative effect on morale? Shocking

But hey, they can take the credit for the beginning of modern enshittification, so they've got that going for them anyways. Because their IPO was the death of the good version of the internet and everything they've done since has just made everything shittier and shittier. Almost like basing the entire society around greed is a mistake or something. whooda thunkit except literally everyone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was never the official motto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the clock is ticking

Down to what? In order for Google to fail in the short term, it would take some really big event. It would have to be something at the level of "Google banned from EU after..." to make Google unprofitable. I'm sure Google can afford losing 500M customers in a short timespan, but not if they reside in an economic region that has great influence over others.

For Google to fail in the long term, its ad business would have to fail. I imagine a few more antitrust cases to make google lose its search dominance would be a big domino.

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