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by screye 946 days ago
> series of bad-to-disastrous leaders at the Director, VP, and SVP level

Isn't that exactly the job of an org executive? To hire and align competent senior leadership ?

I don't think he is criticizing her in particular as much as the archetype that she represents. She is a person who has never had a coding job & spent her early career quite far from the people who write code. I can't for the life of me figure out why you would put someone like that in charge of google-dev relations. That's a premier-IC-turned-leader position if I've ever seen one.

No wonder she doesn't have a strategy. That's a terrible match for a hire.
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chatmasta 946 days ago
> I can't for the life of me figure out why you would put someone like that in charge of google-dev relations.

One possibility is that the person who put her in that position has an incentive for Flutter/Dart to fail.

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ruszki 946 days ago
They just don't care.

Btw, it's very funny to see projects, which were predestined to fail, because they send their shittiest, and somehow they became better, and slowly more important than the executives star projects. There are meetings in such cases (I was part of such projects and meetings, several times), after almost everybody should be fired immediately, if you want anything good for the company. But of course, most of the employees of large, and old companies don't care anymore about products, or their respective companies.

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93po 946 days ago
> They just don't care.

This seems likely. Google makes 90% or some very high percent of their money from ads. I doubt there is any focus on on comparatively small side projects

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ob-gyn 943 days ago
I find it fascinating how you speak with so much authority. I know Jeanine Banks and I've been really upset with all the "diversity hire" nonsense coming from many of you who cannot hold a candle next to her. For your information she had been programmingor since high school and was hired into a government agency as a high school programmer-intern. That internship was her introduction into the worlf of technology. She has been an executive at GE and Amazon. Let's take alook at your resume and see if you can get into the rooms that Jeanine has been in. The condescension from many of you and particularly Ian's hit piece has been a disappointment to see.
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75th 943 days ago
> hold a candle next to, programmingor, worlf, alook, has been

I dare say we’ve all been in some rooms we didn’t really deserve to be in, wouldn’t you?

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