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Widely held opinion in HN: Promotions in Google are based on how many new products / projects launched by that person. So, every person in that spot wants to do
by tsjq 5y ago
Widely held opinion in HN: Promotions in Google are based on how many new products / projects launched by that person. So, every person in that spot wants to do afresh and nobody cares about maintaining existing ones: coz that is not in the metrics for promotions.
- lrem 5y agoThat is slightly wrong. The launch-to-promo culture in engineering is real. But no engineer has any bearing on the "new product"-level decisions. What us mere mortals can do, is to try to convince the product management and UX designers to launch a feature in the vein of "clear the clutter" in Photos or "walk between nearby public transport stops to transfer" in Maps that we know how to implement. But "replace Hangouts with a SMS client, personal chat, personal calls, enterprise chat, enterprise calls and some auxiliary apps" is definitely decided at VP or even SVP level. They don't get promoted on "code launched to production".
- didibus 5y agoI'd be surprised if PMs didn't get promoted on "product launched", "new market entered", and such thing as well. If engineers get promoted on new service launched, new major feature launch, massive rewrite, etc. I'd bet PMs would similarly be promoted on the same, so big feature launch, big new product launch, big new market expansion, etc. That makes it they're all spending their time pitching these ideas left and right to the execs until one bites.