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Comment by tumetab1 | Hacker News Reader

Notice, this is long article. Around 12 000 words or 30 pages.

Does Wired even have editors? Any editor who's not incompetent beyond belief would have told Nitasha Tiku that it's not necessary to include every single detail from three years' worth of notes. In fact, the excess verbiage makes it less impactful than it could have been. A good editor would have trimmed this to one half or even one third of its current length, and it would have been better without the bloat.

Don't be ridiculous. The New Yorker regularly has articles of this length if not longer. It's ordinary longform journalism.

There's nothing wrong with something being longer if the content warrants it. Complex topics require lengthy exposition. But that requires the writer to write, to arrange and connect things into a coherent narrative. That's not what happened here. This is a thin article, padded out to novella length with repetition and irrelevancy. Again, it's not bad that the article exists. It just needed a better editor.

It's endless and it doesn't get to the point.

What is the point?

I think the article tries to make the following case:

1. There's a ton of dissatisfaction in the Google employee base

2. It's distracting company management and hurting the company core mission (making cash)

3. It won't go away any time soon

(FWIW, I believe the case is overstated.)

That the company culture ain't what it used to be.

I generally enjoy longform journalism but this is an exhausting read.

May have been better as a series of articles.

Google will have no problem identifying the infidel based on a phrasing analysis.

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