Keeping an operation like Google going forward at that scale going is not a job for talentless hacks,

I mean, no it isn’t.

At the same time, an operation which works like this is certainly extremely flawed. I doubt there’s one engineer working on GDrive that doesn’t think a folder size feature wouldn’t be useful and relatively simple to implement. So that’s more of an argument towards the operation going bad, instead of the engineers.

Maybe this slipped through the cracks but this thread already contains a bunch of examples of stuff like this happening.

They can be architecting Tensorflow really well and that certainly is impressive but when GMail takes 3 seconds to load the main page and downloads 10MB during that process you know something is going wrong.

3 seconds to load the main page is a complaint? How far we've come and how little we actually travelled.

3 seconds to download 10 megs.

I remember when using a 300 baud modem each letter would slowly appear.

The speed of a car stuck in first gear is impressive next to a horse-drawn carriage. Something is still broken.

…but closing the UX tickets apparently is.

If the initial systems were written well, it could be self sustaining enough that it could run with an incompetent staff for quite a while.

That's why they hire thousands of talentless hacks, at scale.

How about humorless hacks? ;-) I used to work at google too, it was fun. I heard they don't do the memegen TGIF (or Thursday) variants anymore.

As recently as January I'd accidentally stumble into some kind of thursday party on the top floor of one of the SF offices. As for memegen, us contract peasants are not worthy of that group, so I have no idea.

SF kept the food party, despite the company forum ending. SF's food culture is impenetrable.

I know people are down voting you, but I just want to say that I found this comment funny.