Their quarterly financial filings may give you a clue... the search, YT and network ads business revenue and margins are so huge that what they do anywhere els

Their quarterly financial filings may give you a clue... the search, YT and network ads business revenue and margins are so huge that what they do anywhere else pretty much doesn't really matter from a corporate results standpoint :-) I've both lost and hired employees to/from Google and compared to my industry, by all accounts the culture around financial discipline appears to be way less important which may explain some of what you see.