<![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> Ted Dziuba left for the blogging.

EugeneDelacroix

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> smart people can be a big frikkin pain in the a$$, way more trouble than they're worth. Hasn't anybody read 'Brave New World'? You need your Betas and Gammas and even your Epsilons to keep the machinery running. And let's face it, a lot of the machinery running is very very far from rocket science.

BobDope

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> @macbeach: And pray that the person who originally wrote the code didn't leave it a complete mess that will take a year for the next guy to figure out before they can even begin to do anything with it.

TeenageCaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> It's seems for the talk of having to become specialized, these people seem to be whining, ironically, because they didn't feel special anymore.

I've worked with enough egineers in the past to know that one of their biggest peeves is dealing with the reality of running a sustainably profitable company. That, and their natural fear of suits and women puts them at odds with the company when it comes time to actually make businesses out of their r&d.

TeenageCaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> Often times people who write code from scratch are not the best people to maintain or even enhance it. If these people can't find brand new projects within the company it is best for both them and the company to part ways.

In fact it is bad for a company to encourage such people to stick around just wasting their talents in order to have bragging rights (Microsoft).

You can always (1) invite them back when a new project comes up, (2) buy their company if they've produced another winner, (3) get a new genius out of college since good programmers/designers are never quite as irreplaceable as they think they are.

macbeach

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> Ted: These goodbye messages were posted on the specific people's blogs, not as 'hurr-hurr' messages on the mailing lists. Is that okay by you? :-)

kfury

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> When I quit, I didn't get all hurr-hurr on the mailing lists because nobody cares.

Ted Dziuba

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> "receive a dignitary" - a bit of boasting going on here I wonder..

What "dignitaries" did you receive Chris - Al Gore, the papa of the Internet.

runrig

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> That reminds me of something I can be doing at work.

Not that I'm leaving now, but I should have one ready.

Is CCing the CEO tacky?

sample032

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> That's unusually cold actually ...considering these emails go out to thousands. Haven't heard of this yet, but jeez... how unfortunate for the people who can't jump to other companies to be reminded by others are leaving.

w00zy33

]]> <![CDATA[Why Googlers go: because they want to control everything]]> how about stock vest dates and amount of stock liquidated on this little punch list of people inching up the hierarchy of needs.

msd2020

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