Memoirs of the almost a year I lasted at Google. The name of that year? 2008. Yeah. Topics include: Third World, precariat, tech elitism, queerness, surveillance, capitalism.
Y’all encouraged me to submit this as a full post, and I clearly overcommited to this blog so I hope TechTakes fits for it lol
I’ve seen articles and blog posts picking at bits and pieces of Google’s rep (lots of articles and blogs on their roll in ongoing enshittification and I recall one article on Google rejecting someone on the basis of a coding interview despite that person being the creator and maintainer of a very useful open source library, although that article was more a criticism of coding interviews and the mystique of FAANG companies in general), but many of these criticism portray the problems as a more recent thing, and I haven’t seen as thorough a take down as mirrorwitch’s essay.