Google

• As of [[2020-12-12]] I work for Google. I have done so for eight years.
• A good employer.
  • My coworkers tend to be great-to-amazing.
  • Compensation is good.
  • Many of the company’s products are useful.
• I’m not a huge fan of ads but I think that showing/seeing ads in exchange of free services is a reasonable proposition, when it’s clear.
  • It’d be better if it was always optional.

Google

Once when I was younger I found myself in google Cambridge. I was perhaps a [[stan]] for google, making everyone aware of my android [[superiority complex]] (I am slightly autistic), before I understood what google really meant for me as a consumer. As an employee, however, it is a far fetched dream. I recall everything, the secret nap room, the healthy-snacks-but-shh-down-here-we-keep-[[oreo]]s, the [[firepole]], even the texture on the elevator doors. It must have been 10 years ago, but dreams die hard.

I now understand life is never really going to amount to personal-projects-on-company-dime and [[nap]] time, but a large part of me still dreams to experience that work space.

Perhaps one day I will be good enough, until then that’s why a [[dream]] is a [[dream]]

Thanks for reminding me Flancian ;)

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• [[2022-04-10 17:10:50]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • this is what I think summarizes my position w.r.t. the [[entaglemente]] between [[google]] and the [[agora]]:
• [[2022-04-10 17:11:18]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • how many flancians are there working for [[google]] — I can prove there is at least one, and I think I can prove there are many
• [[2022-05-11 20:22:00]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • yes, I have saved up money while working for [[google]] in [[switzerland]]

• [[2023-01-21 00:39:23+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109724405855777817:

  • As you may have heard my employer [[Google]] is cutting 12000 jobs.

    Many of those affected in the US woke up to their corp access gone and a compensation package.

    In other locations people will have to wait weeks to learn if they are affected; until then we all know there’s some probability we could go.

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• [[2023-01-28 10:37:43+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109766394730365151:

  • This weekend I plan to write about what’s happening at [[Google]] in the Agora.

• [[2023-02-21 20:40:52+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • My task for the night is to write an open letter to #Google, meaning the corporation and all human groups which are subsets.

• [[2023-02-21 19:01:44+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • Saying goodbye to [[Google]] (somewhat likely), a thread.

• [[2024-02-15 18:11:59+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • I am Google, you are Google, we are [[Google]]

• [[2024-06-03 19:38:31+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • What happened to [[Google]] to end up with URLs like this? :)

• [[2025-08-28 09:20:26+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • #Google making it so that people cannot run their own code in Android without registering as developers with them is a new low point IMHO.

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I sometimes dream that I started the [[revolution]] two years ago at #Google and nobody noticed.

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