Comment by anal_reactor
7 months ago
> You can see this in AI. Every story from an AI engineer that ran away from Google is the same. They didn't run away for the money, they ran away because they were getting scared into compliance.
Can you elaborate?
Yeah, what is scared into compliance?
Being pushed/forced to implement top-down efforts, forced to comply with management's directives instead of being empowered to build things bottom-up
https://sifted.eu/articles/deepmind-talent
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researcher-quit-google-op...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2023-07-13/ex-goo...
https://mdwdotla.medium.com/why-im-leaving-google-for-a-star...