[kevinventullo]

It's not just researchers. Engineers at Google get to spin up products and throw spaghetti at walls, too.

This might have been true 10-15 years ago. I assure you it is not the case today.

[happyopossum]

Yup, it still is. Maybe it was more prevalent or expected 15 years ago, but it still happens all the time today.

[jcims]

Google is not a monolith, both can be true.