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>>geox+(OP)
Wow, Google has really become the IBM of 2005s. All flashy demos, 'call sales' to try anything.

>>fooker+cg
According to Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, Google employed 30,000 managers before the recent layoffs. The hard truth is Google needs a Twitter style culling. Take all those billions you're burning and give it to people with a builder mentality, not career sheeple. Unfortunately the same executives who would oversee this are the ones who need to be culled first.

>>fullse+Ji
From what I understand, Google has a unusually large number of engineers who are happy to coast, and would actively avoid taking on anything important. That seems more of an issue to me compared to middle management bloat.

>>fooker+xp
I worked at Google from 2012 to 2022 and this didn't match my experience, for what it's worth. There were some people who coasted, but it was not common. There were a lot of people who got much less done than you might expect due to bureaucratic friction, but my coworkers were generally very enthusiastic to take on important things.

>>jefftk+PS
Important things and delivery of features are two very different things.

Rewriting a Linux kernel module is "important", but rarely impactful.