Comments on: I Don't Buy It

By: BIG SWINGING

BIG SWINGING — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:15:07 +0000

Of course another way to say it would be, “there are no different cases, just different faces”. lol

By: BIG SWINGING

BIG SWINGING — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:11:12 +0000

Your point reminds me of what a lawyer friend once told me, “they’re are no different cases, just different faces”.

By: RG

RG — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:44:06 +0000

Well, here’s the thing, I believe that it’s possible that there’s very little overt praise in meetings etc, so in that sense, John, I disagree with you. But, you spent enough time there – think about these things: 1) the number of employee parties 2) the amount of outings/trips for employees, not only as a company, but within their groups 3) the sheer number of perks that they enjoy.

Then multiply that by all of the media talking about it over the past several years and add the fact that they all get quarterly reviews and one on one time with “managers”. Once you do that, you start to realize that the appreciation that they drive for isn’t your typical praise in meetings stuff, but it exists company-wide, as well as individually. Just in different, less traditional ways… some might say it’s a very non-capitalist model in a very capitalistic company.

By: ♥ Search Engines Web

♥ Search Engines Web — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:07:37 +0000

It is Really not so hard to imagine...

Marissa, Larry, Sergey probably do not have much time for much idle chatter among the masses. And the "your'e so great" comments would probably be cut-offed.

When opportunties presents themselves - the geeks will probably be either pushing their own projects or listening repectfully to whatever business releted news or idle chit chat Marissa, Larry, Sergey would care to share.

Don't forget, in the beginning, Google was *not* as relevant as the once great AltaVista - so Silicon Valley brilliance was certainly *NOT* exclusive to the Google founders - -- but Very Good Management may have been that social darwinistic factor.