[fortylove]

Wow. I've gotten glimpses of this from friends who have almost all now left Google. From the outside, it seems that the political structure in place within Google exists purely to perpetuate it's own existence as a political structure, vs driving towards a deliberate balance of customer value/employee happiness.

My friends used to talk about how they loved it there, and got to work on impactful things. But slowly that shifted to "all we do is take a half year to add a field to a proto", and then "at least it pays well".

I don't have anything in particular to add here, but it seems a shame that Google has fallen so far.

[delusional]

> it seems that the political structure in place within Google exists purely to perpetuate it's own existence

This is true of any system. What has changed is the perceived "greatest threat". In the past the greatest threat was that the entire operation ceased to exist. They might be outcompeted or fail to deliver value. Now that Google has firmly cemented itself as a stable monopoly, in the economy but even more importantly in the minds of the manager, the greatest threat is that their department is deemed unimportant and allocated fewer resources.

There's no longer any perceived threat to the collective, so instead the whole thing turn cannibalistic.

[chestervonwinch]

This is somewhat validating to read as someone who started semi recently.