> Rob Pike and Ken Thompson have Sundar as their manager This isn't true (and I don't believe it's ever been true). > I saw this at least with other Google Fe

> Rob Pike and Ken Thompson have Sundar as their manager This isn't true (and I don't believe it's ever been true). > I saw this at least with other Google Fellows This also isn't true in general, there are no Google Fellows that report directly to Sundar. Not to mention that neither Ken nor Rob is a Fellow. > and don't go through perf in any real sense Why do you believe this to be true? Many people of similar stature (VPs are approximately equivalent to Google Fellows, and there are tons of VPs) have a real perf process, although it doesn't quite resemble the one you or I would have. If you mean that he has no incentive to "play perf games", then that's true only insofar as they don't want to advance, which is true for the average Google engineer starting at L4 or L5. > At Google seniority is revered. This hasn't been my experience at all, I've had quite reasonable experiences pushing back against my directors and questioning my VPs.