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.
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Google’s Corporate Culture: An Insider’s Perspective Analysis
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One of the better articles I've read over the years on the culture that is Google, warts and all. (This substantially matches my understanding from *many* conversations that do not have a publicly readable URL associated with them.)
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OpenAI Launches Data Partnerships Program for AI Development
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Announcing OpenAI Data Partnerships — help steer the future of AI by collaborating on public and private datasets with us.
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ARM’s hiring expansion pressures profit margins amid growth
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ARM’s vague profit language sinks stock six percent ARM’s massive hiring — a thousand people in twelve months — has lead to pressure on operating margin. The company’s CFO, Jason Child, assured investors that the company is still on course to an eventual goal of sixty percent
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Major AI Industry Event Paris November 17 Features Tech Leaders
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Big AI industry event at Station F in Paris, Friday Nov 17. Keynote Speakers: Eric Schmidt (Schmidt Future), Jensen Huang (CEO Nvidia), Xavier Niel (Iliad/Scaleway). Speakers include: Thomas Scialom (Meta, of Llama fame), Arthur Mensch (CEO Mistral, or Mistral-7B fame), Jason
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AI21 Labs Team at AWS re:Invent Vegas Event
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Come meet the team at #AWSreinvent in Vegas! Let's talk #GenAI – schedule a meeting with us: https://
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Interview with Paige Bailey: AI Pioneer at Google DeepMind and GitHub
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Good morning fellow AI enthusiast! I received none other than @DynamicWebPaige
, a pioneer in AI product management and a visionary who’s been at the helm of transformative projects at @GoogleDeepMind and @github
, working on the most advanced LLM projects. https://
open.substack.com/pub/louisbouch
ard/p/behind-the-ai-revolution-paige-bailey?r=25qlky&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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