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I don’t think product excellence is a function of the interview process, it’s mainly a function of what you are promoted for, and rightly or wrongly, launching

I don’t think product excellence is a function of the interview process, it’s mainly a function of what you are promoted for, and rightly or wrongly, launching new things tends to give you a better career trajectory than fixing or maintaining old stuff.

kamaal 8y ago
That's an unfortunate consequence of the OKR process. If the company has to be chasing near moonshot projects all the time. Then they also align resources towards it. That means money is chasing those projects. There is a huge incentive to keep launching new things. To keep doing something big. Its the classic throw-pizza-at-wall-see-what-sticks approach except the experiment is run among a huge group of people. So eventually some Pizza sticks. But even in that case. I hear '20% time projects' culture have long been dead for now. So that means the projects have to come some one from the top to get some resources.