Rick must be good at executive politics. Mergers of orgs this big are rarely about organization efficiency and are instead about scope and retention for SVPs.

Rick must be good at executive politics. Mergers of orgs this big are rarely about organization efficiency and are instead about scope and retention for SVPs. Rick wanted more power. Sundar must like Rick. So Rick got more power. Using this as an excuse for layoffs (we all know that after the voluntary ones will come the non-voluntary ones) is garbage. The people making the decision to merge these orgs knew how big they were. It isn't like this is a surprise to anybody.