What's going on at Google's Nest? - Business Insider

What's going on at Google's Nest? - Business Insider

You have successfully emailed the post. We're hearing about troubles at Nest, the smart-home company Google bought for $3.2 billion See Also Every Thursday afternoon, Google holds a "TGIF" meeting that invites employees to ask questions of cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page — or, lately, new CEO Sundar Pichai . One Thursday in early 2015, a Googler asked why employees at Nest, the connected home startup that Google bought for $3.2 billion in 2014, had been asked to work on the weekends for months . Matt Rogers, a cofounder of Nest, fielded the question. Rogers essentially said that this was just the way the process sometimes worked for hardware products. It may have seemed like a simple enough answer, but some employees found it insulting. "He wasn't acknowledging that this was a bad state to be in and he wasn't taking responsibility," one former employee told Business Insider. "And ultimately if you're asking your people to work weekends, it's not their fault,

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