alt Hacker NewsI am constantly shocked that this is the company that basically revolutionized the internet at some point. Lately I've been marveling at their decision on Maps to take up a third of the screen with a button to change the color of the arrow that represents the driver's vehicle. Do Google employees simply hate Google?
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semolino • today at 4:27 PM
Ah yes, the button that summons the "cannot edit avatar while driving" toast upon accidental press.
From https://drmaciver.com/2020/06/you-should-complain-about-it/ :
"""I worked at Google. Google has an internal philosophy of “Don’t complain, fix things”. This is, on the face of it, a proactive and positive philosophy that empowers people to make changes in the workplace.
It’s not. It’s a horrible, coercive, tool of abuse that is a fairly central part of why it only took me six months at Google before I burned out hard and had to quit for the sake of my mental health.
The problem with an attitude of “Don’t complain, fix things” is that it means you can’t point out problems without taking on an obligation to fix them. This means that you can’t point out problems that are too large for you to fix, and that you’re reluctant to point out even problems that you could in theory fix because it increases your workload.
The result, at least in the part of Google that I was in, was very much a culture where people had learned not to notice problems."""