This project says way more about the organization than any specific technical competence. I'm not close to Google, but from those I know on the product side it

This project says way more about the organization than any specific technical competence. I'm not close to Google, but from those I know on the product side it can be 'a Gaggle' with nobody really in charge ... but I guess if you have enough self-motivated conscientious actors, and mature people, without ugly turf wars, who can have reasonable discussions, and responsible enough people in charge that can steer things in an appropriate direction ... it works. But the fact this is an evolution and not a 'new product' is probably prerequisite - so many smart people are hard to coral around new ideas, but if it's done A B C times, then a 'Z' solution speaks to an Engineers sense of efficiency and it should be natural for such an org to want to do it. I won't name names, but I worked at a large tech company that could not get 'Single Sign On' to work. It was really frustrating to think so many reasonably smart people couldn't figure that out. We don't need genius I think just a wealth of experience and a lot of common sense.