> I understand the author's point of "we don't have executive vision, engineers do random things and sometimes it works". But I've also read posts complaining o

> I understand the author's point of "we don't have executive vision, engineers do random things and sometimes it works". But I've also read posts complaining of "engineers are not allowed to try things, we are forced to follow executive orders". In this case, they aren’t mutually exclusive. Engineers aren’t allowed to do things and are forced to follow executive orders. And due to the lack of executive vision, engineers end up following executive orders to build random things without any good rhyme or reason (and certainly without any long-term vision). And sometimes it works, but often enough, it doesn’t. At least that’s been my 2 years of experience within google.