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Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone

posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 26 2015, @04:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the wish-this-was-my-office dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. But not Google's executive suite these days. When Google restructured itself as the "Alphabet" holding company, the visionary IoT and science projects were moved out of Google division, and Indian-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the core Google company which handles search, Android, YouTube, and all the other high-volume IT stuff. And that's a good thing, according to a couple ex-Googlers interviewed by Re/code: "All the assholes have left" ; Pichai apparently has a rare blend of hard and soft skills.

At Google, this guy has moved upstairs. And apparently having a CEO who was a brilliant entrepreneur but also a complete jerk was hardly unique to Google, Steve Jobs being the canonical example among tech CEOs. We've recently learned about the way Jeff Bezos runs Amazon. An obvious question from these examples is, can an ambitious tech company rule the universe without being run by assholes?

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  • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday October 26 2015, @04:08PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Monday October 26 2015, @04:08PM (#254730)

    Watched it. By and large, it is sad than the Sun did set...
    However... If u ask me, they were to expensive for their time.
    At the university I was at (was oldtimer =) they went from Sun blade 100 to nameless PC with athlon 64 and debian. Until than, they had all kinds of Decs and mostly Suns...

    This guy seems to lament the sunset, but he does not give details of the economy of the company in the last years, but I can imagine their problems...

    My best memory of Sun is the sound and impression the CDROM made when it withdrew the tray... I think it was the sun blades... =)

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday October 30 2015, @02:41PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday October 30 2015, @02:41PM (#256477) Homepage Journal

    The only Sun systems I've ever had laptop style "pop out tray", push the button and it pops out on a spring.

    Honestly, Sun did more for UNIX than most people give it credit; NFS (despite its problems) works on basically any *nix platform as a standard, ZFS is pretty awesome, Java ... well, if Swing didn't suck for one, and if it hadn't been in licensing hell for many years, it would have been even better. (I don't love the language, but being able to use Jython or other similar JVM-targetted languages is pretty nice).

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