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Re:Android XR by stephen_cagle on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:57PM (#42419060)
Your experience at Google is not what I experienced at Google. Something of much smaller scale than this would require VP approval to begin work on.

Disclaimer: I'm willing to believe that I just had less swing/power than you did at Google (or am not skilled at getting those things alight), but the idea that this was spun up "autonomously" (organically/grass roots) seems pretty far fetched.

tldr; Most things were delegated hierarchically from my experience.

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Re:Android XR by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday December 15, 2024 @11:28PM (#42428023)
You're not going to be a L4 in Data Processing and start a Stadia project on your own, no.

It would also be ridiculous for you to even try.

But you can spin up smaller things, and L7+ can start major projects if they want to risk their career.

And that's how most of the non-massive initiatives have worked.

Massive initiatives like Stadia, Cloud, Maps, Social, Play, and Gemini are atypical at Google considering the thousands of smaller projects that have launched, maybe tens of thousands considering internal projects.

Even most of those project decisions aren't happening at the C level.

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