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The Google Caste System

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the duke-of-programming dept.

managedcode writes "Google doesn't like to do things traditionally. Right from their IPO, when they dumped Goldman Sachs for secretly trying to deal with their big investor, Kleiner Perkins. Business Week covers the Google Caste System, 'in which business types are second-class citizens to Google's valued code jockeys [..] They deem the corporate development team as underpowered in the company, with engineers and product managers tending to carry more clout than salesmen and dealmakers.' At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world."

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  1. old joke by know1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    reminds of the old joke about engineers "yesterday i couldn't even spell engineer, now i are one"
    seriously though, i can understand the engineers being as highly prized as the coders, what with the whole google infrastructure and all those miles of cable being bought up, but the sales staff? well, i guess they are a business.

    1. Re:old joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "yesterday i couldn't even spell engineer, now i are one"

      A quote from Bush? I kid. Really! It's just a shame he got into the whole "Nation Building" seeing how he seemed all against it in 2000.

  2. Re:VC's don't like Google... by petrus4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You hit it on the head. We keep seeing Google is evil posts on /. because they raised rates for software engineers, because they value software engineers, and because they're "steeling all of the talent."

    I've often tried to understand it...Maybe someone can help me out here. Why have Slashdotters apparently morphed into such raving, screeching Commies over the lasy few years? The leftist extremism that I keep seeing here and on Newsforge is unbelievable.

  3. Re:How quaint. by rooster9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah... YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!