What's going wrong and how can it be improved at Google?

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Asked 9 years ago to all employees at Google

10 Answers from Employees at Google

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score 0 · Answer 1

The reward and recognition process is not transparent at all; too many internal politics and rarely middle managers are 'people' managers.

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management is too internally focused - don't care about real success for the customers. attributing (often organic) growth to their actions

score 3 · Answer 3

They are employing people to watch netflix all day and do nothing.

score 3 · Answer 4

fewer meetings, more focus on strategic, less on empire buiding

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Management is not invested in people development.

score 2 · Answer 6

Low performers are not handled efficiently.

score 0 · Answer 7

Faster weeding out of poor performers

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Wrong people and redundant processes.

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see previous answers

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