



However, Yegge still feels "Google is still one of the very best places to work on Earth, just about any way you care to measure it". He continues by carefully explaining how most of Google's major product announcement in the past few years have been an answer to a competitor's advances and not a response to customer demand.

















Of course, not everything is black: Yegge gives credit where it's due and confesses that it will take the industry some time before it could appropriately answer to a few Google products like Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, TensorFlow, Waymo, and others. But in the end, Google became the bad guy in the story of Steve Yegge and is no longer "a very inspiring place to work" . But it sounds like Google is not the only big tech company that has slowly gone this way: the software engineer describes Oracle, Twitter, Apple, eBay, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesForce, and all the big companies in the Silicon Valley "kinda meh" . Not quite surprisingly, Steve Yegge says Google has been stuck in a "me-too" mode for far too long, spewing a load of copycat products. For instance, he cites Google+ as a direct answer to Facebook, Google Cloud as a countermeasure against Amazon's Web Services, Allo was intended to counter WhatsApp, Android Instant Apps - Facebook and WeChat's advances in the field, and of course, Google Assistant to checkmate Apple's Siri and probably Amazon's Alexa.Of course, not everything is black: Yegge gives credit where it's due and confesses that it will take the industry some time before it could appropriately answer to a few Google products like Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, TensorFlow, Waymo, and others. But in the end, Google became the bad guy in the story of Steve Yegge and is no longer. But it sounds like Google is not the only big tech company that has slowly gone this way: the software engineer describes Oracle, Twitter, Apple, eBay, Microsoft, Adobe, SalesForce, and all the big companies in the Silicon Valley





"Dread Pirate Bezos" . Ouch! That's totally not the first time Steve Yegge has positioned himself in the sights of Google. Back in 2011, he made a ton of headlines by 'accidentally' posting a long rant about Google's impotent Google+ strategy which quickly gained virality, but somehow did not have him fired. He also used the opportunity to also take quite a few jabs at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and currently the richest person in the world, calling him the. Ouch!



Google is slated to host its Google I/O dev-centric summit between May 8-10 and will most certainly reveal its current vision for 2018 software as Android 9.0 P will be demoed. While it's strictly a software event, there could potentially be some hardware announcements at I/O '18. You can Google is slated to host its Google I/O dev-centric summit between May 8-10 and will most certainly reveal its current vision for 2018 software as Android 9.0 P will be demoed. While it's strictly a software event, there could potentially be some hardware announcements at I/O '18. You can read more about that right here



