Digital Rights Comics VS Goomics

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• Google engineer confronts Google director for Project Nimbus

  > What a shitty culture Google has fostered. If you're ever curious how exactly Google shoved unethical technologies on employees that didn't want to develop unethical technologies, I highly recommend reading Goomics, comics made internally by a Google employee who left the company in 2021. It reveals how there had been employee protest against developing tech for the military purposes, as well as protest against... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• wireless charging it's literally unusable

  The more we learn about the current corporate culture of Google, the easier it is to understand why things are the way they are. We know now that launching products, no matter how redundant, is what gets you promoted, not fixing bugs in existing products. We also know that there are teams that support mission-critical portions of Android that are deeply under-resourced, primarily because there's no incentive to... Source: over 1 year ago

• Google CEO calls for a more “focused” and “efficient” Google

  > From the outside, a major source of Google's inefficiency seems to be an endless cycle of product churn and duplication, with the worst example being the 10-plus messaging apps Google has produced since Pichai took over in 2015. Our best insight into Google office politics comes from a series of previously internal-only Google comics [1] by Manu Cornet, which frequently describe launching a new product at... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• The Birth of a Monopoly

  Google is a company that was always super profitable, but only became evil around 2010-2015. As reflected by Goomics. Source: about 2 years ago

• Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit

  As mentioned in the article, they're available on https://goomics.net/ Super cute comics, though there's a lot of references to internal Google culture or figures that I had to look up at times to get the joke. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago