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by Google delenda est 05/20/2020, 7:44pm PDT |
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blackwater wrote:
At a big (or even really a medium-sized) company, developers aren't responsible for making the call about how to respond to customer requests. Management decides how they want to respond.
Leadership directs their underlings, sure. Also, crafty enough irresponsible programmers know how to manipulate management just by saying any solution is high-cost, low value.
My point was that bad engineers are sloppy fuck ups, and unwilling to ever fix their own mistakes (vanity, pride, ignorance etc), or listen to feedback. They absolutely will shit-talk about users being retards for tripping on bugs, or that the client is a nagging bitch in asking for the features that they're bankrolling. They are aware of the problems and complicit in looking down on the customers.
That's just my experience at more than one Big Software Company, YMMV.
blackwater wrote:
The advertising team at Google doesn't really "do deals." They don't really have a sales team in the normal way. Instead, they maintain a platform that customers use.
I'm not aware of advertisers working with programmers especially since they speak different languages. Somebody had to talk to the partners and stoke those relationships at some point. I would be very surprised to see the biggest ad network just sprout out of IT only. Maybe Google has since moved on, outsourced, or whatever. I'll admit I don't work there.
I still see Legal and Marketing as having way more power and prestige in software companies than a Principal Software Architect III does, but YMMV here too.
Dude, Google has like a zillion data centers around the world. They have some handicaps in this race, but lack of local data centers is definitely not one.
I'm not saying they have a lack here. Point is YouTube took a while to spin up to what it is now: development, production, live ops etc. etc.
Google delenda est wrote:
The Stadia Question appears ripe for a new CALTROPS long (medium?) bet.
blackwater wrote:
I'll take one side of that. I bet they shut it down OR spin it off within 10 years.
IPB wrote:
I'm going to throw out that it will be kept on life support for at least 2 years from when they started it. My cynical ass sees a 3 year sunset.
How do you sell premium game streaming to TVs in a market filled with phones, Twitch, and new shiny VR? Worst case would be the year-over-year numbers can't be sold by PR as a success. |
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Googledämmerung by blackwater 05/16/2020, 3:36pm PDT 
A little more about this. by blackwater 05/16/2020, 11:21pm PDT
Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by IPB 05/17/2020, 8:41am PDT
Hiring by Ichabod 05/17/2020, 9:41am PDT
Re: Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by blackwater 05/17/2020, 5:48pm PDT
Ads are obviously the powerhouse by Google delenda est 05/17/2020, 7:23pm PDT
This post is gold by Vested Id 05/17/2020, 7:43pm PDT
Re: Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by IPB 05/18/2020, 11:43pm PDT
Almost laughed out loud at the programmer tunnel vision description by Google delenda est 05/19/2020, 4:21pm PDT
Re: Almost laughed out loud at the programmer tunnel vision description by blackwater 05/19/2020, 11:15pm PDT
Bad programmers, and THE BET by Google delenda est 05/20/2020, 7:44pm PDT
Re: Bad programmers, and THE BET by blackwater 05/21/2020, 12:03am PDT
Google Stadia bets subthread by IPB 05/20/2020, 12:11am PDT
I’ll bet Stadia is shutdown or sold off by 2026. by blackwater 05/21/2020, 12:17am PDT
Trump’s DOJ planning on bringing an antitrust suit by end of September NT by blackwater 09/15/2020, 6:58pm PDT
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