You: Uh I don't know exactly what was expecting when I hired you but…
Memeplex: Yes what a fun change of pace it is in this terribly immature organization.
You: So… what are you working on?
Memeplex: Fixing that one cannot work in this environment.
@patio11
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AI Workplace Culture: Fixing Organizational Environment Issues
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Ex-Googlers Risk Overplacement Beyond Demonstrated Competence
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And so, relative to a non-Google hire, your ex-Googlers will be at positions within your company which their level of competence may not yet have, ahem, strictly speaking been fully demonstrated yet. The memeplex will have prepared them well for what they need to do next.
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Default Consensus: Salary Upleveling When Hiring Ex-Tech Executives
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"What's an example of default consensus decisions?" OK, so you're hiring ex-Googlers, right? You know what their payscale looks like. It is higher than yours. You will *systematically* uplevel them both to justify more $ and to make up for the sacrifice they take joining you.
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Google Exodus: How Ex-Googlers Transform Startup Culture
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But there exist many startups which, without making a conscious decision to do so and just making a lot of default consensus decisions in the hiring process, will hire 30 Googlers and then, 18 months later, not *quite* understand what they have done yet, but feel the difference.
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Federal Government Management Kills Tech Startup Performance
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"Did that even need to be said?" I think there is relatively little alpha in tech saying that, if you operate your tech startup like the federal government operates, inclusive of hiring say thirty people from the federal government so you get the good flavor, life will be hard.
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Google memeplex influence: corporate culture as systemic risk
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And so when the Google memeplex looks around locally and sees a lack of the comforts of home, which the memeplex is very capable of advocating for persuasively, sometimes it should be listened to and sometimes it needs to be treated like a prion that kills all hosts but Google.
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Google’s Path Dependency and Unassailable Market Position
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The way that Google operates is both extremely path dependent and also successful in the context of happening to be one of the most powerful, well-resourced, unassailable businesses that has ever been conceived of in reality or fiction, attached to a magic money printer.
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Google’s Organizational Culture and Its Lasting Impact on Former Employees
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The culture that is Google embeds a memeplex which sees organizations that do not operate as Google operates, and interprets this deviance as damage. Some people who previously worked at Google are extremely steeped in this culture and less than reflective of this fact.
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Lessons from Working with Former Google Employees
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I have had the opportunity to work with many people who previously worked at Google, and enjoy the vast majority of those interactions. But I will say a thing that must be said, for the benefit of people who will otherwise learn it the hard way:
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Identity and Work Culture at Big Tech Companies
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And a challenge of working there is "How much of my brainsweat/care/identity is entangled with playing the game that is Google and Getting Good at Googling? And how much is everything else?" Neither extreme of spectrum is optimal for most interesting values systems.