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Re:Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ by quintushoratius on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:28PM (#21942844)
> They aren't as powerful as you think

It's pretty common for C-level executives, and CEO's in particular, to be pretty chummy with the board of directors. They're all in the same social circles.

Often the CEO of company A will be on the board of company B, and and the CEO of company B is on the board of company A, so there may even be a quid-pro-quo element.

While the CEO officially answers to the BoD, in reality there's a lot of "understandings" and "gentleman's agreements" going on. This is why under-performing CEOs seem to stick around so long.

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Re:Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ by tedivm on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:52PM (#21942966)
Yeah, but that's a world of difference from "director level and above", particularly at a company like Google where there are literally hundreds of VPs and Directors (if not a couple thousand).
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