Staff have allegedly been involved in abusive arguments as tensions rise DADO RUVIC/REUTERSGoogle workers are at each other’s throats over leaks emerging from the search engine giant, according to a former senior employee. Jack Poulson, a former research scientist at Google, has described a culture in which the “number one priority” among senior managers is to stop leaks to the media. Employees at the company’s headquarters near San Jose, California, are encouraged to monitor their colleagues and list on a web page within Google called “Stopleaks” any confidential information that they see externally. Tensions between employees over leaks to the press have also resulted in foul-mouthed arguments, Mr Poulson revealed. During a question and answer session at a company-wide meeting, a senior engineer took the microphone…

Source: The Times December 08, 2018 00:00 UTC