> Google can never make a good piece of software, though they can have very strong backend engineering for it, and so on. I think it’s more accurate to say tha

> Google can never make a good piece of software, though they can have very strong backend engineering for it, and so on. I think it’s more accurate to say that Google struggles to make application layer software. Most of their successful products like search, YouTube, Maps and Gmail are successful because of infrastructure/data layer advantages despite unexceptional UX/FE. Chrome is a notable exception. > I wonder if the culture is set and can never be changed though. Is it an immutable property of companies based on initialization? I suspect there’s a feedback loop where the people who drove the initial product success end up running the organisation and their priorities dominate. I’d love to read a study that investigated this by looking at how org charts on LinkedIn evolve over time.