Former employee says Google is "arrogant" and copies competitors

Steve Yegge, a former Google employee who worked at the company for 13 years, publicly announced last Tuesday that he was leaving the Mountain View Giant. Yegge described the reasons why she decided to leave to join an Asian startup with an office in Seattle, USA. According to him, the company has lost its ability to innovate and in recent years has become arrogant because of its success.

The main reason why I left Google is the fact that Google can no longer innovate. They basically lost that ability

“The main reason I left Google is the fact that Google can't innovate anymore. They basically lost that ability. First and foremost, they are conservative: they are so focused on protecting what they already have that they are afraid of taking risks and real innovation. Second, the company is mired in politics; and third: Google is arrogant. Google has the arrogance of the 'we', not the 'me'. When a company is as successful as Google has been, the organization can be struck by a sense of invincibility and almost manifest destiny, which leads to tragic outcomes and bad strategic decisions, ”Yegge wrote in his blog on Medium .

He also comments on the fact that the company's major releases in recent years have all been boosted as responses to its competitors' products. He talks about Google+ as a competitor to Facebook, Google Cloud in response to Amazon Web Services, Google Home as a copy of Amazon Echo, WhatsApp Allo and Android Instant Apps in response to Facebook and WeChat, among others. “They just don't have the innovation in their DNA anymore. And that's because their eyes are fixed on competitors, not customers, ”he said.

And that's because their eyes are fixed on the competitors, not the customers.

Still, Yegge admits that Google is the best place in the world to work on any indicator you choose to consult. This would be especially true for software engineers.

He also reports that some of the company's products are truly groundbreaking - such as Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, TensorFlow and Waymo - but these would be points off the curve. Because of these qualities and the shortcomings cited earlier, Yegge says leaving Google was a difficult decision that was made over the course of several years.

You can check out Yegge's full review of Google here.

Former employee says Google is "arrogant" and copies competitors via TecMundo