[happosai]

In case of Google, it's not just the size of company. It's the fact that the company makes it's money from selling ads. No matter how well you do your job, the end result is only that more ads were sold.

Programming is a superpower that can change the world. Yet the best paying jobs for programmers are at FAANGs building systems to peddle ads. .

[bananapub]

> It's the fact that the company makes it's money from selling ads.

this is true, but it did not at all affect how 90% of the company worked. the ads teams made money and everyone else did whatever, supported by that infinite firehose of cash.

a large part of the reason google has sucked (internally and externally) for the last few years is that this changed.

[dalyons]

Changed how?

[pas]

everything else also now needs to make money.. since it's impossible to directly make really any meaningful revenue compared to ads (and maaaybe cloud) the only thing remaining is to integrate ads, upsell cloud, downside, etc.