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Over the last few decades, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have become something of a staple for startups. OKRs are the goal-setting framework that has propelled companies like Intel, Uber, Amazon, LinkedIn, and many more to success. Think of a tech startup, and chances are they use OKRs. And in the world of OKRs, there’s one name that reigns supreme: John Doerr. The author of Measure What Matters, Doerr was taught this framework by its original creator and CEO of Intel, Andy Grove. He’s… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Google will slow down its pace of hiring in response to an “uncertain” global economic outlook, chief executive Sundar Pichai wrote in an email to employees that was obtained by The Washington Post. The company has already hired thousands of employees this year and will continue to hire, but it will start focusing its hiring efforts on engineering and other “technical” roles, Pichai wrote in the memo. “We need to be more entrepreneurial, working with… Source link

If you were trying to figure out how to get your employees back to the office after two years of working remotely, it might make sense to come up with some sort of plan that combined the two. Maybe they would come back to work a few days a week, and work from home the rest of the time. Call it a “hybrid” model of work. That certainly seems like a reasonable solution, again, if your goal is to get people back to the office. And, there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons you might want people… Source link

“I worry less about whether we have done something early or not,” says Pichai. “You know, the Newton came well before the iPad. Just because something was done a long time ago, ideas can be ahead of their time.” If you were to find a modern parallel for Google Glass, which was unveiled in 2013 amidst a wave of sartorial and privacy-related scepticism before being quietly shelved two years later, it probably would be Apple’s short-lived personal digital assistant (PDA). Newton’s… Source link

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and editor-at-large David Pierce discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. On Wednesday, we saw Google announce a whole bunch of products and features from their keynote live stream — from updates to the Nest Hub Max to previewing a 2023 Pixel tablet. So, on The Vergecast, we’re focusing a chunk of the show on Google’s… Source link

Over the past two years, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has faced increased pushback from employees, most recently at an employee meeting in March. Employees there complained that the company is falling behind on issues like compensation and how the company reviews performance. Before that, Google eliminated its iconic town-hall meetings in response to a rise in employee activism. Pichai himself faced criticism over his leadership style, with some employees complaining that he takes too long to… Source link

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A few days ago, Sundar Pichai announced a $100 million Google Career Certificates fund. It’s got nothing to do with college education, and instead, focuses on giving up-and-coming data analytics, IT, project management, and UX design students the tactical tools needed to start their careers with a bang. It follows in a long line of similar efforts by coding bootcamps across the country and online educational portals like Udemy and Coursera.  To all of this I say: Thank goodness. Now, I’m… Source link

Google’s chief executive approved an agreement with Facebook at the heart of an antitrust lawsuit that 16 states and Puerto Rico have lodged against the search giant, according to a portion of the complaint revealed on Friday. The lawsuit, led by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, argues that Google has obtained and abused a monopoly over the network of technology used to deliver ads online. When publishers started using an alternative system for selling their ad space, Google worked to… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and parent company Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.91% said the U.S. government should take a more active role in policing cyberattacks and encouraging innovation with policies and investments. In the wake of recent cybersecurity breaches attributed to Chinese and Russian hackers, Mr. Pichai said the time had come to draft the equivalent of a Geneva Convention for technology to… Source link