I don't think we know enough from this to say. It's possible that this bug made it into the wild because the organizational structure made remedies impossible.

I don't think we know enough from this to say. It's possible that this bug made it into the wild because the organizational structure made remedies impossible. In that case you probably don't fire anyone, though maybe you reassign some folks. It's also possible that the organizational structure indicates that a person or a group of people is responsible for this and they failed to do that job. If that's the case then it might very well make sense to fire folks. It also might not. I think it's important for poor performance to have consequences[1] and I also think that people leave jobs all the time and it's fine to decide that someone should leave their place in the org with a positive reference and look elsewhere for work (perhaps in another part of goog). [1] for moral and company culture reasons if nothing else.