Yegge starts on a disapproving note of his former boss, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos and says, "Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves." He trashes the company's "political, philosophical and technical screw-ups," before moving on to Google Plus.
He goes on to say "That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't "get" platforms," . In a total bash he says "The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call.
The post appeared online at a time when programmers and technology industry experts were more or less predicting that Google Plus was doomed to fail. Mostly due to a Chitika traffic report stating that Google Plus traffic had dropped more than 60 percent, since a 1,269 percent spike after opening to the public in late September.
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