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by tmpz22 2272 days ago
I’ve started seeing alphabet employees use this as an excuse: “oh that happened on team x there’s nothing I could’ve done”. On small technical issues the excuse is fine - on large moral issues it does not work.
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In large corporations politics are abound. If the Chrome division cannot get other divisions to behave through other means, this is fine.

You can see that they should have fought harder and escalated, but issues like this are probably not the ones most upper-middle management want to potentially damage their career for.

It's not fine, but it's certainly to be expected.