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Sundar was never an engineer. > Google is... what? An advertising network? A vendor of office apps for businesses? An ISP? A grocery delivery company (they did

Sundar was never an engineer. > Google is... what? An advertising network? A vendor of office apps for businesses? An ISP? A grocery delivery company (they did that for a good while)? A social network? Oh, and that gaming thing with Stadia? There is a clear identity - Google is about hoarding all of the available data (originally web) and making money off of it any way you can. By definition it has to be huge and get their hands into as many pies as humanly possible and then cut away stuff that doesn’t work. So i would say they are being perfectly consistent whether their employees appreciate it or not.

Nevermark 3y ago
> making money off of it any way you can Of course there isn’t an inconsistency there. Its such a non-identity there isn’t anything to be inconsistent with, outside of declaring the company a on-profit. The problem of lack of identity isn’t always about lack of consistency. It also is a lack of focus. Lack of focus leaves the door open to vastly increased complexity. The need for more and more employees as per employee impact drops.
- dilyevsky 3y ago
  It’s not much more generic than “make consumer electronics” from apple which makes everything under the sun now from headphones to cars. Google just increasingly became at odds with its own “dont be evil” motto as the company had scaled so execution had greately suffered