AOL's Culture Clash...And Tim, Where Do You Think This Work Is Coming From?

AOL’s going to have/is already having a culture clash problem with all the ex-Google employees it’s brought on, reports Econsultancy.

CEO Tim Armstrong, a former Google employee himself, has been bringing in staffers from Google to bulk up the ranks of AOL’s staff.

The problem?

“AOL was so used to losing that they didn’t know what winning was,” Armstrong said.

Googlers are “used to giving someone a task and receiving work better than they expected,” writes Econsultancy. “At an established corporation like the old AOL, employees are used to having their work checked over….Which

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