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There is no prioritization at the company or sense of mission. How Google works is by making thousands of tiny incremental changes to dozens of products that no one cares about and which don't make the world a better place. Google's leadership is completely insulated from what people actually want. One example is that for the entirety of my term (2020-2023) I've heard the narrative that "google search isn't as good as it used to be". The reaction of top search leadership was essentially - well not according to our metrics. we'll keep on building search how we see fit. Then, chatgpt comes along and installed a new narrative - that it could do things better than Google. That narrative caught on, not because OpenAI has better tech or because chatGPT is a good product, but because Google has not addressed those earlier critics and has just been pushing their own vision of search.

- You can't trust management - Everyone looks out for themselves and what will make them look good - Experience varies by team - May wake up on a Friday morning laid off with no warning or reason despite good performance, cut off from all your corporate access.