I wonder what the culture there is like. Visiting relatives over the
weekend they mentioned someone they know who works there and it is what
I call a "tech monastery." They're expected to work long hours. Long
hours for some naive people are considered a "badge of honor." However
development works more in chunks like doing fine art. I often told
programmers to walk away from a tough nut problem and go get an espresso
and enjoy a sit out in the courtyard. Usually within a few minutes of
doing that they came rushing back in because during that nice break the
solution popped into their. I was fun to explain to suits why my
programmers were working when they were sitting out in the courtyard.
Not all programming of course is done at the computer. :-D
What I would like to know is what management model are they using or are
they just trying all kinds of things? Some of this stuff looks like it
needed a good supervisor to catch errors or get the group to do a better
job. It's often like they slop something together and post it and no
one checks. And we're left looking at very ambiguous information.
There are many schools of thought as to how to manage tech companies.
HP tried matrix management back in the 1990s and people who worked there
were happy. They only had 3 levels of hierarchy. Our company tried it
and it didn't work well. I would wind up in charge of the programmers
and someone else in charge of the project manager. We change to a
"publishing director" role so I had charge of both and that worked
better. Some tech management writers were in favor of something called
"5th Level" or something like that which Siemens used but I had an
Indian employee who worked at Siemens and said all they did was just
write books of rules and left them on the shelf.
- Brian
Al Sutton wrote:
Whatever has happened the QA process is non existant.
I could understand a few teething troubles if the whole group jumped ship, but
basic issues such as having to re-upload the high-res icon every time are due
to non-existant testing, and for that there's no excuse.
Al.
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On 1 Dec 2010, at 02:51, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote:
I must admit that I am stumped by the entire market experience. I've
been working with Google for years and know personally at least a
dozen Googlers. I've been to every IO event and have even been offered
a job by Google (passed the interview and have an offer letter, turned
it down) yet this market thing is by far the most bewildering thing
about Google I have ever run into. Perhaps the original market team
now works for Facebook. That could explain a lot.
-John Coryat
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