I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and I’ve never been more excited for Go’s future. Read on if you’re interested in what led me to my decision, what I’ll be doing next, and what I’ll miss about my time at Google.
Go has been my passion for the past 10 years Ten years ago, I used Go for the first time.
Was just asked to apply to be a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador.
No way. I am not using the little social reach I have to promote the harmful work of Google. And using inclusivity to draw women (or any marginalised folk) into promoting Google is 🤮
Want to know just how much Gmail despises its users?
You can export your Gmail in MBOX format.
What formats can you use to *import* mail?
…
Any guesses?
…
Foolish user! You cannot import mail 🖕🤣🖕
PSA:
Do not use EAP therapy resources.
This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally.
@chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.
Post details
Apple VP Deirdre O'Brien sent a video to retail staff acknowledging that this has been a uniquely challenging time but that store NPS is the highest it’s been. She also said the company has a “wide range of mental health resources” on the People Site. She announced…1/
Yikes. TL;DR: Employee talks to HR about discrimination. Google suggests (on-campus) counseling. Google has access to notes from those sessions (!!) and used them against her in court (!!!).
So much for that employer-provided "perk".
Story here: nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/…
Post details
PSA:
Do not use EAP therapy resources.
This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally.
@chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.
throwback to that time a Google recruiter reached out to me after seeing my GitHub profile
this was several months ago, but it’s only just dawned on me that they must’ve seen my profile full of abandoned projects and thought “yep, that’s Google material right there” 😂
i married a google engineer. he stole my work, presented it as his own, tanked my chances at google by telling his mgr he was abusing me, then tried to have my kids taken away from me when i left
OK, whew. I've now read all 130 pages of state AGs suit v Google.
In three words, Google is royally screwed.
Expect...
Press headlines: Facebook and Google colluded!
Deeper dives: Google turned open web into a walled garden of tying, exclusionary tactics, and privacy fixing.
The full postmortem of the Google outage this week is now up:
- incomplete migrations can be dangerous
- it continues to baffle me that Google systems aren’t designed to minimize the blast radius.
- Automated tools shouldn’t have the ability to make *global* config changes.