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Google Internal Comics

by interlocutor on 7/8/21, 11:16 PM with 212 comments

  • by gravypod on 7/9/21, 2:15 AM

    "Don't focus too much on promotion" - A Billionaire Google Exec

    https://goomics.net/228/

  • by re on 7/9/21, 1:05 AM

    Related: Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773253

  • by bscphil on 7/9/21, 2:07 AM

    I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a worse place.

  • by gorgoiler on 7/9/21, 3:40 AM

    Some fun here but wow do these get negative. I can relate to a lot of this stuff and I hope the artist is ok.

    If a relationship is bringing you sadness and negativity all the time then it either needs some nurturing or a nuclear option.

    The nice thing with employer relationships is you can literally walk away. Relationships with people are worth fixing but no job is worth the sadness, even if it’s with someone as prestigious as Google.com.

  • by ChuckMcM on 7/9/21, 12:53 AM

    Certainly a somewhat limited audience but as a xoogler I found a lot of those hilarious.

  • by powera on 7/9/21, 3:00 AM

    Lots of good comics in there. A few I haven't seen highlighted yet:

    https://goomics.net/127/ - poor, poor Google Plus. Somehow it wasn't a warning sign that the big executive-supported project to Win Social was a laughingstock internally.

    https://goomics.net/202/ followed years later by https://goomics.net/294/ - everybody expected TGIF to get worse over time, and apparently it did.

    https://goomics.net/118/ - the last of three TailGator comics. A more innocent time.

    And last, https://goomics.net/106/ - not Google-specific at all, but an instant classic of the industry.

  • by BossingAround on 7/9/21, 9:39 AM

    https://goomics.net/17/

    > Size of the pool of candidates for a position at Google <image of the world here>

    Yea, no. It's kind of funny that the image of the world is centered at North America. That's how I feel about Google (and a lot of other big tech) hiring practices.

    I'm not saying you can't work for Google from the UK, Germany, India, or other places, but it gets a lot harder.

  • by rkagerer on 7/9/21, 2:35 AM

    D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶

    D̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶

    Pray that nobody notices

    https://goomics.net/314/

  • by umvi on 7/9/21, 3:12 AM

    https://goomics.net/329/

    This one has a lot of meme opportunity. Imagine a third pane ("Oracle" or something) with guns pointed both inward and outward!

  • by wnevets on 7/9/21, 4:29 AM

    https://goomics.net/366/

    some much about I what dislike about google these days can be traced backed to this comic

  • by matsemann on 7/9/21, 8:58 AM

    > https://goomics.net/347/

    Rules for thee, not for me.

  • by teraflop on 7/9/21, 2:16 AM

    A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/

  • by bla3 on 7/9/21, 2:05 AM

    Dude was done with Google at around comic 280 and didn't notice for almost 100 more comics.

  • by mqus on 7/9/21, 11:08 AM

    They are great! But some (most?) could really benefit from a creation date/year being visible, especially when referencing years that are made out to be "far in the future" but are in the past now

  • by barbazoo on 7/9/21, 2:15 AM

    I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one someday.

  • by Black101 on 7/8/21, 11:28 PM

    If you right click and click View Image, you can then zoom in.... helpful for https://goomics.net/img/2018-01-25_mk_cookbook.png

  • by chizhik-pyzhik on 7/9/21, 5:33 AM

    You can use the 'j' and 'k' keys to navigate between comics.

  • by jacinda on 7/9/21, 5:09 AM

    Other work from the same author (has been a public site for a while): https://bonkersworld.net/

  • by Donckele on 7/9/21, 6:50 AM

  • by y3sh on 7/9/21, 1:06 PM

    Xoogler here, I loved these too... I wish I could find the internal comic about Intellij and Eclipse both as big floating messes -- similar in style to https://goomics.net/364/. It might have been an internal meme.

  • by spywaregorilla on 7/9/21, 1:59 PM

    https://goomics.net/348/

    This one is fantastic. Seems a little strange that they're wearing an apple shirt when google does the same thing though and its a google comic that seems generally self-scathing.

  • by bawolff on 7/9/21, 3:12 AM

    For all the comments here, i thought the criticism in these comics would be a lot more biting.

  • by notacoward on 7/9/21, 1:02 PM

    The fact that you could rebrand at least 70% of these as Facemics or about a hundred other Xyzmics says a lot about how much Google drives tech-industry culture. Worth pondering whether that's a good thing.

  • by brainwad on 7/9/21, 2:47 PM

    https://goomics.net/239/ needs a few more darts ;)

  • by jostyee on 7/9/21, 5:26 AM

    pity the RSS feed is dead: https://goomics.net/feed.xml

  • by rtpg on 7/9/21, 6:49 AM

    Anyone know the story behind "Code Mega"?

  • by Liskni_si on 7/10/21, 2:04 PM

    I made a comic book archive out of it for easier reading on phones/tablets/e-inks: https://store.lisk.in/tmp/goomics.cbz

  • by 0x456 on 7/9/21, 11:36 AM

    Hopefully someday this will have a companion site, like https://www.explainxkcd.com/

  • by lxe on 7/9/21, 3:27 AM

    Tons of these are relevant to tech industry in general.

  • by Lammy on 7/9/21, 8:50 AM

  • by ur-whale on 7/9/21, 3:57 PM

  • by anigbrowl on 7/9/21, 2:37 AM

    Pretty strong collection in the aggregate.

  • by miga on 7/9/21, 2:46 PM

    Looks like Dilbert is now working for a real company...

    And there are 30 thousands of him.

  • by ta988 on 7/9/21, 1:22 PM

    It is interesting to see people complaining about google getting into military and immigration. And not complaining about universities doing the exact same thing. I don't see much opposition in the academic and they work on the same kind of "problems".

  • by carlsborg on 7/9/21, 8:25 AM

    Launch and run warrants the brag. Shipping is hard.

  • by chrisweekly on 7/9/21, 2:35 AM

    These are great!! Thank you for sharing. :)

  • by gcatalfamo on 7/9/21, 7:51 AM

    Is it me or the site navigation makes it really annoying to go through the comics?

    Comic sites (e.g. xkcd) usually allow users to navigate sequentially without having to go back a page after each comic.

  • by throwaway894345 on 7/9/21, 5:18 PM

    365. Oof.

  • by rammer on 7/9/21, 1:28 AM

    Not good resolution, hard to read some of the text