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		tptacek on Jan 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Culture Change at Google I find it useful, in reading this stuff, to remember: the company he joined in 2005 had (apparently) 5,600 employees. In 2022, that number was 190,000.

bombcar on Jan 19, 2024 [–]

Which is the difference between a very small town (might have a Walmart!) and the entire population of Montgomery, AL.

With required support services, if Google was in one place it’d likely cause a company town of over a million.

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