I’m not sure exactly what the PMs role would be in regards to software quality, but from the sounds of it, the engineering team was poorly lead or had unhealthy

I’m not sure exactly what the PMs role would be in regards to software quality, but from the sounds of it, the engineering team was poorly lead or had unhealthy practices (which likely means it was poorly lead). Which isn’t too uncommon in software engineering mind you, but if that’s not the responsibility of the PM then I don’t really see what is wrong with what Bret Taylor did. If you could improve my code like that, I would welcome it and learn from it. The only people I think should feel “wronged” in that situation is the people who were responsible for an entire team of engineers not being put to better use. Of course unless Bret Taylor worked on that part or the issue, then whatever lead to the production of bad code was never really solved at google maps, but again, unless that’s the PMs area of responsibility then well…