This is what you get when the MBAs are in charge. They just go with P&L, Spreadsheets, etc. and care only about the current quarter and meeting the goals.

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wahnfrieden 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Google leadership has been from research/engineering and product backgrounds. This is how hierarchical businesses operate

	▲	foltik 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not really, in such large companies there's enormous selection pressure favoring career politicians. Maybe the survivors did some engineering at some point, but expertise fades fast when you stop getting your hands dirty.
	▲	lesuorac 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Except leadership is largely not from employees moving up the rank Sundar (CEO) is from Mcksinsley. Ruth (President) is from Morgan Stanley. TK (Cloud CEO) is from Oracle. Mohan (YouTube CEO) is from DoubleClick which is Google at this point (~15 years). --- Largely the story of the past several decades is that "doing your time" is a bad strategy. Always move to another company to go upwards.