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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by justapassenger on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:50AM (#26168468)
> He's saying that most people optimize for promotion rather than building a better product. That's indeed the wrong thing to optimize for, esp for the company.

It’s literally his job, as a CEO, to make sure promos and career progression align with increased product quality.

Sure, it’s harder as a part big company, where there’s more bureaucracy to deal with (both for good reasons of consistency and equality, and bad reasons of just because) but no one said growing is easy. As an engineer I’d be fired if I wouldn’t solve technical challenges of scaling.

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by nqo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:25PM (#26169695)
Was literally about to type this out. The issue of prioritizing promos over product value doesn't exist when delivering product value is what gets you promoted. If that's not the case, it's the fault of management and not the employee.
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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by tpudlik on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:56PM (#26175539)
He was the CEO of Waze, but not of Google. After the acquisition, he had to adopt Google promo processes.
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