[cutenewt]

I talked to a friend about what's she's seeing inside Google right now and the amount of corporate and cultural dysfunction is shocking. Politics, games, entitlement, and decreased productivity.

Is there a company that's more dysfunctional?

[twunde]

Plenty. Look outside of tech and you'll see that's the norm in many places.

[scottyah]

...yes? You just described every large organization/company ever.

[twblalock]

And academia is even worse!

Any large organization where people have the ability to create little fiefdoms will result in this eventually.

[eitally]

No. This is absolutely false. I don't think anyone who hasn't been inside of Google can possibly understand how "differently" (one might even say "Googley") dysfunctional it is.

[scottyah]

Have you worked in government/defense? I only know two people who have jumped to google and they did not think google was as bad.

[jarl-ragnar]

Any large aerospace company. Especially those that have been bought and merged with others as the sector has consolidated over the years.

Having watched it from the inside of one through 4 aquire/merge cycles over 10 years I speak from experience.

[meepmorp]

Boeing?

[Perceval]

Sure. Raytheon Space also going through its Game of Thrones at the moment.