Many faces of Bias
I did miss and wish there had been more diversity in my teams. If we were serving global users, it made a lot of sense to have global teams.
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Category: Career
What a wreck – Stories from 10 years at Google
I wondered about the answer I could have given, the words I didn’t say. L’esprit the escalier, as they call that feeling of the having the perfect reply too late. The difference is that this feeling lasted for months, if not more.
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The Great disappointment – Stories from 10 years at Google
It was too late. I was already in love with the company. But that day, I felt stunned, and that feeling remained for a while. I had invested a lot to make “this” happen and, it turns out, “this” was something very distinct.
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MBTI Fiasco – Stories from 10 years at Google
“So what must we do to help Inês not feeling excluded?” I can tell you what: asking questions like that.
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Doing it for free – Stories from 10 years at Google
“If you are doing this for free, in your spare time… you might as well do it for real. How do you feel about being the Marketing person for Portugal?”
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Great Managers – Stories from 10 Years at Google
My manager, trying hard to help, had the brilliant idea of giving me a paper and a pen to write it down. I picked a pencil, instead – it was less permanent – and wrote the words: “my mother has cancer”.
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