GoogleをBlogでクビになった男
Interview With Fired Google Blogger
以前にもなんどかこの解体新書にも登場しているMark Jen氏。その後もなんどかいたるところで取り上げられていたが、あまり興味なく、読み飛ばしていたのだが今回は写真付のインタビューということもあってなんとなく読んでみた。
Mark Jen started work at Google on January 17, and posted his first comments on his new blog almost immediately. As far as Jen was concerned, the blog was for his girlfriend and a few others to read -- he posted a link to it in his America Online user profile, but never got more than a hundred hits per post. Until, that is, Nathan Weinberg of the blog InsideGoogle found the site, and bloggers started linking to Jen’s revealing posts about adjusting to life at Google. Less than a month later, Jen is an out-of-work internet celebrity.
At this point, even though he was getting more hits on his blog, Jen claims he still didn’t know that his posts were being picked up by bigger sites. It was only after talking informally with the manager that he realized that he might be causing trouble for the company. “The guy said, ‘There’s something going on with your blog. Why don’t you take it down,’" said Jen. "So I immediately unpublished the posts.”
MSを1年半そこそこで退社してGoogleに入社し、それと同時にBlogを始めた。彼女とうちわの友達向けに始めたBlogが大物BlogのInside Googleにリンクを張られてからアクセスが急増。
さらにより著名なサイトからしらずしらずのうちに紹介され、ある日上司からやめるよう勧告をうけ、すぐに非公開にした。
“At Microsoft I could have said, ‘We’re doing great and we’ve got great products,’ but it just so happens that Google is very strict about what they want us to do," Jen said. Indeed, several bloggers besides Jen have written (and continue to write) about life inside the other tech giants. For instance, see Robert Scoble’s page about life at Microsoft.
But Google is different. Even their PR people -- who are trained to get publicity for the company -- are secretive about the goings-on inside the Googleplex. Google representatives declined to comment for this article, beyond stating that Jen is no longer a Google employee.
MS社のScobleとおなじLevelの情報開示したにもかかわらず、JenはGoolgeを解雇された。
