• elliot schrage

    Facebook can have him

    Commenter Facebookcanhavehim shares this thought on Google überflack Elliot Schrage's prospective departure for Facebook:
    It has nothing to do with Eric's philandering. It has everything to do with the fact that Elliot sucks and is being run out of the company. No idea he has held on so long considering how ineffective he has been. From the inside I can affirm his team hates him. The other executives see him as impotent, reckless, and self-promoting.

    4:40 PM on Mon May 5 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    2,576 views, 5 comments

    Latest by matto: @Nicholas Carlson: I suspect its some sort of halfassed site promotion or pagerank scam. more »

  • commenter of the day

    Yahoo finally wins one, beats Google's DoubleClick severance package

    Commenter and steadfast Yahoo apologist MarktheMarketWatcher zings Google's skimpy severance package for laid-off DoubleClickers:
    Yahoo! has promised, at a minimum, a 4 month severance package to anyone who might be terminated in the event of a Microsoft takeover. So whose not evil, anyway?
    Yes, congratulations, Yahoo. Your search revenues — no, your growth rate — no, your severance package outshines Google's. Of course, as my colleague Jordan Golson notes, "I bet if Google could give severance packages with Microsoft's money they'd be a lot more generous too." For inadvertent hilarity, MarktheMarketWatcher wins commenter of the day.

    4:20 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    1,740 views, 1 comment

    Latest by ck209: Yes, but do they offer classes on difference between "whose" and "who's"? more »

  • great moments in journalism

    Wired writer flacks for Google

    Wired.com editor Leander Kahney writes up received Google fictions peddled by the search engine's PR division as fact in this month's Wired magazine. Google's employee perks are a common topic in the press, but our readers tell us the reality is far from the earthly paradise Google sells to gullible journalists. Leander makes working at Google seem like heaven:
    And today, if Google hasn't made itself a Greenleaf-esque slave to its employees, it's at least a cruise director:
    More »

    12:40 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
    By Jordan Golson
    1,854 views, 6 comments

    Latest by Dweezil: @cowsandmilk: What the fuck is an Adwords CSR in another complex going to do with 20% time off? They're a more »

  • comments

    Ex-Googler vents: "Google recruiters are out of touch"

    Former Google employee Hans Cardinal shared his view on 20 percent time and the working environment he experienced inside Google.
    Google recruiters are out of touch. This 20% project concept is a thing of the past yet they still promote it as if it exists. Recent survey (Googlegeist) shows that most people don't even have a 5% project since they're working overtime on their primary project. Nothing really innovative has come from within in the past few years. Most of the stuff is just maintenance.
    He continues: More »

    11:20 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
    By Jordan Golson
    17,990 views, 24 comments

    Latest by alanosaurus: Implosion? Google owns 60% of the search ad market. They wouldn't implode unless they made it their primary goal to more »

  • cubicle culture

    Googler's complaint: Recruiters should lie more artfully

    Commenter jordanly has harsh words about Google's hiring practices:
    Google works fiercely to woo extremely idealistic and passionate young innovators with long self-love ballads of all the avenues for creativity and self-management available in this paragon of Doing-It-For-the-Love-Of and Freedom-Of-Thought.

    They are often straight-out lies.
    He continues: More »

    1:40 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
    By Jordan Golson
    4,653 views, 14 comments

    Latest by the_gdude: Yep - my recruiter bold-faced lied to me. I'm still paying for it. Oh well - thems the more »

  • great moments in hr

    Google dresses up job listings for crappy jobs

    In our "Googler's vent: working here sucks too" post, commenter tengallonhero does some venting of his own:
    To all the commenters saying "stfu and stop whining": the thing you're missing is the false advertising on Google's part. Google doesn't tell you when you're going through their intense and selective recruiting process that your job is going to be crap.
    He continues: More »

    9:06 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
    By Jordan Golson
    10,030 views, 27 comments

    Latest by laroc: I know some peeps in India who would love themselves some Google CSR jobs. more »

  • comments

    Brad Fitzpatrick coming unplugged at Google?

    From the comments, a fresh rumor about Brad Fitzpatrick, the LiveJournal founder widely believed to be working on social networks at Google. The commenter, who claims to work at Google, says Fitzpatrick is actually working on free, ad-supported Wi-Fi. Curious, since Google's Wi-Fi projects have faced trouble recently. A deal with San Francisco for free Wi-Fi fell apart thanks to Google partner EarthLink's straitened finances. Why would a tech star like Fitzpatrick work on such a seemingly doomed project? With that caveat, the report on Fitzpatrick's new project, from googleyes, after the jump. More »

    11:42 AM on Mon Sep 24 2007
    By Owen Thomas
    942 views, 3 comments

    Latest by 0x6772: You can do that as long as you meant "Mountain View near G-plex" by "city". more »