Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at this week’s all-hands meeting as he sought to clarify and defend cost cuts and address employee concerns.
One of the top-rated questions posed by employees at this week's meeting asked Pichai to elaborate on his commentary regarding improved productivity and the 20% goal.
"Sometimes we have a product launch process, which has probably, over many years, grown more complicated than maybe it needs to be," Pichai said."Can we look at that process and maybe remove two steps and that’ll be an example of making something 20% more efficient? I think all of us chipping in and doing that across all levels, I think can help the company. At our scale, there is no way we can solve that unless units of teams of all sizes do better.
The all-hands, known as TGIF took place in New York, where Pichai took questions in front of a live audience of employees. "I remember when Google was small and scrappy," he said."Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”
Kristin Reinke, the head of Google finance, said at the meeting that sales teams will have more leeway to travel since their jobs require meeting with customers. Towards the end of the meeting, Pichai addressed a question about why the company has shifted from"rapidly hiring and spending to equally aggressive cost saving."“I’m a bit concerned that you think what we’ve done is what you would define as aggressive cost saving," he said."I think it’s important we don’t get disconnected. You need to take a long-term view through conditions like this.
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