> I’ve seen people promoted to VP based on a set or vague promises they haven’t delivered, mass hiring and vanity metrics So basically Google has become like a

> I’ve seen people promoted to VP based on a set or vague promises they haven’t delivered, mass hiring and vanity metrics So basically Google has become like any big company. If this were true, then it was the a failure of the leadership chain. At some level some leader should be able to call bullshit of this. After all, Pichai should not care about vanity metrics but how Google really grows, right? It's just sad that at certain point that a leader high above simply can't understand every aspect of a business and therefore won't be able to tell if his reports are doing real jobs or chasing vanity metrics.