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I don’t think google has the capacity to become more efficient as an organization. Google is a strange mix of hyper capitalism and literal 5 year planning comma
by 0xB31B1B 4y ago
I don’t think google has the capacity to become more efficient as an organization. Google is a strange mix of hyper capitalism and literal 5 year planning command economy communism. The thin interface of the company with rest of the universe, mainly made of legal policy, sales and vendor management is extremely efficient hyper capitalism. The huge gooey inside of this boundary layer, for basically all job roles, is a command economy where the inputs are determined by exec fiat, the results are interpreted through an extreme work politics lense devoid of nearly all market feedback, the consequences of failure are not firing but a 6 month delayed promo cycle, and everyone more or less is piggybacking on a more than a decade of monopoly profits. Google cannot become an efficient company again until market based success and failure mechanisms return to the inside of this massive company.