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I don't know much about Brin, but from what I know about Page his management is probably a big aspect of Alphabets problems. The idea that the company should be
by MadnessASAP 3y ago
I don't know much about Brin, but from what I know about Page his management is probably a big aspect of Alphabets problems. The idea that the company should be all engineers, all the time, and nobody can tell them no or delegate a task to them probably doesn't create the most coherent and stable product development environment.
- johnasmith 3y agoGoogle is no such place. I've worked in several product areas, and while there is no formal one-size-fits-all process, generally engineers build products specified by PM written PRDs, often informed by UXR, designed by UX. At least for the last 12 years, it's not been a wild west of rogue engineers.
- rezonant 3y agoGoogle is far from an engineering led company today. It is the same product management situation as at any other company. That engineering led vision for the company is what produced their early successes. Their later failures aren't because of being an engineering led company... I think the turning point was the Google+ failure. It was perhaps the first major initiative at Google that was not engineering led, and when it failed, it seems like the shift began in earnest to restructure the company for top down initiatives, led by business instead of engineering. Google+ indeed happened under Page's leadership, so I agree with you that this is where it fell off the rails, but I think you have the reason backwards.