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Comment by throwaway3699 | Hacker News Reader

Sundar spends most of his internal facing time talking about racial equity and less about actual business.

Source: Googler friends.

That's ridiculous. There are a handful of emails about the former topic and there are numerous hour long events where Sundar talks about other aspects the business.

Meh, the outrage crowd in Hacker News is ridiculous. Any level of effort to make a company more inclusive as criticized as the company being 'too woke'. Meanwhile, Google's market cap has exploded in recent years.

Lots of people too scared of 'cancel culture' (read: being caught and having to pay the consequences) around here.

Not a Googler but I think that's great, personally. Google has already found a stable business model and racial equity is a problem.

This is why I've turned down a couple recruiters for Google. It's just not worth it anymore for me.

Would you consider working at Apple? They are also quite vocal about issues like racial justice. They still seem to be praised as an employer, though.

I thought Apple was looked down as a cult secret culture kind of place. Not sure I've heard any praise by anyone aside from large pay and fun to work on cool products.

Both of those things apply to pretty much every big company. As far as reputation as an employer goes, Apple is certainly ahead of Facebook and Amazon.

In what regard is Apple better? Pay / Options / Wfh / office parties, freebies, offices, 20% personal projects?

When inflation sets food prices skyrocketing, cafes and microkitchens will look better than ever as part of the benefits.

Really? Externally Google gives the appearance that it doesn't care about racial equity.

https://about.google/intl/ALL_uk/commitments/racialequity/

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