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I do agree with this criticism. There are impactful things that go unrewarded because of org mismatch and that's dumb. My team has been affected by this very pr

I do agree with this criticism. There are impactful things that go unrewarded because of org mismatch and that's dumb. My team has been affected by this very problem and it is very frustrating to look at a list of things that I know to be very valuable and be told "don't do that, it is misaligned with org priorities." But this is "some impactful stuff is unrewarded" rather that "hard stuff that isn't impactful is rewarded", which was the complaint in the post above mine.

nostrademons 3y ago
The "hard stuff that isn't impactful is rewarded" is relative to the overall marketplace, including conditions outside of Google. Starting a new chat client that replaces Google's other half dozen chat clients may be challenging, but it has little benefit to either users or Google. Good entrepreneurs go into markets where the existing alternatives suck, and make them radically better. Most Google executives and PMs (most executives, period) go into markets that their company and all of their competitors already have pretty decent alternatives for, so the true impact is pretty limited.