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.
CULTURE
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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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AI Everywhere: Personal AI Operating Systems and Society Adaptation
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AI will be everywhere And it starts with @Humane How will we adapt to a society where we all walk around with private AI operating system? Will it be like the Movie Her? https://
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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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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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BedtimestoryAI Gains French Language Community Support
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This is so true, all our support on @BedtimestoryAI from French folks are in french without skipping a beat
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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.
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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.)