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The appreciation for engineering and phd research is missing. All focus stems from the CEO on profitability and revenue and commerce.

Edit: seems like he wrote about this before:

> Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google




Wrong Ian -- Ian Hickson wrote about that in a blogpost, this post is about Ian Lance Taylor


This mostly sounds like "Look I have made my money but don't let that stop me from shitting on leadership (which kinda enabled making money) on my way out.

It kind of make sense also since people blasting management while leaving are mostly not looking to launch their own companies so they will not be proven wrong about their "incisive critique" of management.




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