1 and 3. The quiet detente at Google is product won't be too ambitious if engineering doesn't go out of its way to do anything: 90% of the time product lays ou

1 and 3. The quiet detente at Google is product won't be too ambitious if engineering doesn't go out of its way to do anything: 90% of the time product lays out a minimal rushed vision, engineering huffs and puffs that it might be impossible, then people work about 20-30 hours a week complaining that the designers didn't tell them exactly what to do and the teams they need to integrate with won't help, and you deliver 80-90% of the original minimal "vision" and slap eachother on the back. And that was _before_: A) spent 18 months firing people, while some managers took advantage of that situation to punch down. B) they nuked the performance review system, 80% are exactly the same with their Significant Impact, another 10-15% have scarlet letters, and 5-10% get rewards. Any deviation from that and someone perceives you as being on their turf and finds a way to punch down. And good luck getting management to care, just like the real world, no one wants to get within 100 feet of trouble. Then you're faced with the invitation to appeal to a VP, a coin flip where you have to guess at if they're going to back you, and even if they do, facing the fact you nuked your career anyway because you broke omerta.