I have to confess I was still morbidly curious about this so here are some more preliminary research results research result the first: everybody hated working at/on Google Peoplehttps://twitter.com/qntm/status/1170471690574467073 …
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(I say that because it looks like a lot of these senior folks just quit tech entirely right after and don't show up again)
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I mean you've got to have an office in Greenland you can transfer people to, figuratively speaking, right? I'm just kidding Greenland owns. Anyway I'm just hypothesising
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the current director (yes there is one) did not respond to direct emails which I suspect may just be due to me being marked as spam (I am not internal to Google, meh
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however! I do have a friend in Google (helped me with the employee data) and I got them to email my questions anonymised [drum roll]
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and the response was TETCHY. dismissive. I would say crabby almost to the point of being unprofessional and unfortunately that's it
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"go away" in almost as many words. (or possibly "get away", I mean it depends how you interpret it) also very poor typography for a higher-up. rushed
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apologies for the extremely poor navigability of this nonsense, I am doing my best.
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okay that's basically one research result so here's a second one, apparently they support animated GIFs for profile pics now, AMAZING
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yeah it 100% does *not* workhttps://twitter.com/calxolotl/status/1182515427785658368 …
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I've seen this a couple of times, those were both when the Google Person was based on someone who died IRL thoughhttps://twitter.com/holomancy/status/1182699852821483520 …
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well that's just Twitter, am I right? zooshhttps://twitter.com/vesselskirt/status/1182753757496365056 …
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