This has plagued Google internally for decades. I’m reminder of Steve Yegge’s Google rant [1] from 14 years ago, and ChatGPT is evidence that they still haven’t fixed it.
It’s amazing how pervasive company cultures can be, and how this comes from the top, and can only be fixed with replacing leadership with an extremely talented CEO that knows the company inside out and can change its course. Nadella from Microsoft comes to mind, although that was more about Microsoft going back to its roots (replace sales oriented leadership with product oriented leadership again).
Google never had product oriented leadership in the same way that Amazon, Apple and Microsoft had.
I don’t think this will ever change at this point.
For those who haven’t read it, Steve Yegge’s rant about Google is worth your time:
It’s amazing how pervasive company cultures can be, and how this comes from the top, and can only be fixed with replacing leadership with an extremely talented CEO that knows the company inside out and can change its course. Nadella from Microsoft comes to mind, although that was more about Microsoft going back to its roots (replace sales oriented leadership with product oriented leadership again).
Google never had product oriented leadership in the same way that Amazon, Apple and Microsoft had.
I don’t think this will ever change at this point.
For those who haven’t read it, Steve Yegge’s rant about Google is worth your time:
1 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611