[HN Gopher] Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of execut... ___________________________________________________________________ Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees Author : tim_sw Score : 57 points Date : 2021-08-20 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.businessinsider.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com) | KLVTZ wrote: | https://archive.is/cYrEf | oenetan wrote: | thanks | whymauri wrote: | are they shuttering this one too | bpodgursky wrote: | Nah. I know the memes, but payments is far too core to throw | out. | [deleted] | jsnell wrote: | > Dozens of employees and executives have left the group | | [...] | | > more than 3,700 full-time employees, according to recent | internal data viewed by Insider. Roughly half of those were | previously overseen by Sengupta. | | Do I read correctly that "dozens" out of about 1800 people have | left since April? Is that an abnormally high number, especially | right after things started opening up again after the pandemic? | MattGaiser wrote: | Given the market, is there anywhere that isn't seeing an exodus? | | If you don't like your employer for whatever reason, now is the | time to go. | BitwiseFool wrote: | Tempting, but I personally worry about a glut of talent. Truth | be told though, I would probably have anxieties no matter what | the market looks like. | noodlenotes wrote: | It might be a nice boost to your confidence to apply at a | time when everyone is looking for talent and you'll get more | callbacks. | MattGaiser wrote: | No reason you can't quietly explore your options. | not_exactly__ wrote: | I've been pondering for a while why Google never tried to acquire | PayPal, and/or perhaps most importantly Venmo (which is part of | it). With Android & Chrome being the platforms that they are, the | ultra tight integration of payment of PayPal/Venmo should be | interesting to unlock more payment growth. Yes Google has the | technical ability to build competitors to those, but the market | of consumers/SMB's don't appear to understand the Google payment | offering. Whereas with PayPal/Venmo as the frontend brand, it'd | be hard to argue that the market would be confused given the | already existing uses and brand appeal. Of course this sort of | merger may raise all sorts of antitrust flags so maybe it's just | a thought experiment and nothing else for now. | nicoburns wrote: | Googl Pay is pretty popular here in the UK. The value | proposition is simple: it's like a debit card, but it uses your | phone, and thus can be more convenient in certain | circumstances. | | From my european perspective, where sending money between bank | accounts is free and easy using their first party apps, the | last thing I'd want involved is paypal who have a reputation | for stealing people's money and generally being difficult to | deal with. | crazysim wrote: | There's a messaging app inside G Pay too. | | I don't think anyone would be actually surprised at that fact. | ng12 wrote: | I wonder if building a messaging app is the secret to promotion | at Google. I cant think of any other reason they would have so | many. | Graffur wrote: | My guess would be that it's interesting and achievable work. | It is probably being done by people who have never built a | messaging app so there is lots to learn. | WrtCdEvrydy wrote: | Building new useless shit is the secret to succeeding as a | developer. | | You either build some shit or end up not getting a promotion | / new job. | omnicognate wrote: | You mean the secret to being a developer is... developing? | ForHackernews wrote: | Certainly it's not a career that rewards maintaining | legacy systems or cleaning up technical debt. | still_grokking wrote: | That's for the new hires. The experts who created those | things move on. | granshaw wrote: | Non paywall link? | KLVTZ wrote: | https://archive.is/cYrEf ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-20 23:00 UTC)