Does Alphabet/Google suffer from the same problem? I wonder if the various org mechanisms they have in place allow for ambitious people to channel their energies to build things instead of clawing scope from others.
Lack of “important work” is one mechanism, but in the case I’m describing the issue was overlapping legitimacy: multiple orgs had good reasons to own the same scope. Hardware felt insecure about ML moving elsewhere, SWE had real product needs, AI/ML wanted centralization.
fennecfoxy•1mo ago
I'm not surprised; large companies are like...large cities or towns. I've been at several companies as they've grown from small to medium, medium to large and essentially the same thing happens every single time.
Knives come out, people are smiling but not with their eyes. Meritocracies crumble into cronyism.