[PragmaticPulp]

I know as many non-engineers as engineers at Google right now.

The idea that non-engineers are sidelined is wrong.

[mathteddybear]

Yeah, especially that in the context of this article, the distinction between Engineering and Product is presented as

> Engineering wins by producing beautiful and scalable systems, in pursuing that they sometimes build too complex too quickly. Product, on the other hand, wins by putting new stuff in front of customers as often as possible.

[vmception]

Same, a lot of people relocated during the pandemic but to the same places, some Googlers told me they had never hung out with engineers at Google till then

[foobiekr]

The quality, in my experience, is very substantially lower. It is peculiar.