[allenu]

Agreed. This is just a random employee bemoaning that his large, bureaucratic employer is slow to move, and the opinion document he wrote got leaked for some reason. It doesn't "explain" why Google has become slow. Anyone can work out why Google is slow. Most likely because, like a lot of other large companies, Google has a lot of bureaucracy in the way of getting anything done, and a lots of people and lots of teams leads to mismatched incentives, which aren't necessarily aligned towards shipping product people want.

[ryandrake]

A month ago a commenter linked to[1] a similar rant from Waze’s ex-CEO bemoaning the same kinds of things. Process yuck! Bureaucracy bad! Too slow! and so on. I imagine it’s a common complaint from people who don’t thrive in a slow, steady, process oriented culture.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905310

[catiopatio]

> I imagine it’s a common complaint from people who don’t thrive in a slow, steady, process oriented culture.

People who don’t thrive in a process-oriented culture? That’s everyone except for administrators and political ladder climbers.