= Google
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One of the least <evil> of the big tech companies of the early 21st century, partly because <Sergey Brin>'s parents fled from the Soviet Union and so he is <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[anti censorship], although they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)[have been tempted by it].
Google only succeeds at highly algorithmic tasks or at giving infinite storage to users to then mine their data.
It is incapable however of adding any obvious useful end user features to most of its products, most of which get terminated and cannot be relied on:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google+
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa
* https://killedbygoogle.com/ | http://web.archive.org/web/20190726225042/https://killedbygoogle.com/
This also seems to extend to <business-to-business>: https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/1343969802080030720 ex-Googler tells how they lost the cloud to <Amazon (company)>.
More mentions of that:
* https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petro-curse-908e919a "Google suffers from a digital petro curse" by David Heinemeier Hansson (2021), the creator of <Ruby on Rails>
* https://killedbygoogle.com/ dedicated website, source on <GitHub>: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
Too many genius engineers. They need some dumber people like <Ciro Santilli> who <Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory>[need to write documentation to learn stuff].
<Ciro Santilli> actually attempted two interviews to work at Google in the early 2010's but very quickly failed both on the first phase, because you have to be a fast well trained coding machine to pass that interview.
Ciro later felt better about himself by fantasizing how he would actually do more important things outside of Google and that they would beg to buy him instead.
He was also happy that he wouldn't have to use Google crazy internal tools: someone once said that Google's tools make easy tasks middle hard, and they also make impossible tasks middle hard. TODO source.
But whatever the case: Ciro <grinding for software interviews>[will not, ever, spend his time drilling programmer competition problems to join a company].
https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-ends-its-culture-of-openness/ "GOOGLE TGIF 1999 video". TGIF is the weekly all hands meeting abolished in 2019: https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-ends-its-culture-of-openness/