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Criticism of Unreserved Google Praise

Kevin Scott, former head of Google New York"s search engineering group, at Friendfeed in response to another very positive article about Google writes (line breaks added for clarity, as there"s no line breaks available at Friendfeed yet): Google is undoubtedly an awesome company and was certainly a great place to work the entire time I was there. But. These unreservedly positive fluff pieces really aren"t doing the company a service. They irritated me when I was an employee given the too-perfect pictures they painted and what they missed. For instance, ideas at Google do not burst forth from the heads of geniuses a ...
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>>Blog: Google Blogoscoped
>>Publish Date: 2/20/2008 7:09:56 AM
>>Keywords: google friendfeed

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