> Google kills products that make customers and engineers happy and doesn't spend enough effort to make them better. Heck, as far back as 2010 I got a promo at

> Google kills products that make customers and engineers happy and doesn't spend enough effort to make them better. Heck, as far back as 2010 I got a promo at Google because I was the only one on the Google Maps data team (or the org) who wanted to keep the data up to date. (Also the only one who wanted to live in Seattle -- which might as well have been Siberia to them.) So they shipped me up there and gave me a team. It was like somewhere, deep down, they knew it was a good idea, but each person could forcefully argue why it wasn't -- so that it didn't have to be them. It was great! Well, other than encountering more of the famously toxic culture, where people get promoted for being smart but nasty. But I'm sure that little problem has been solved.