Does Google need a new CEO?
Putting aside the product concerns, from my recent Xoogler perspective, they absolutely need a new CEO.<p>Start with a chaotic management style that is constantly reorg&#x27;ing and forcing manager changes. I had three managers and four reorgs during my under two years. (YMMV by team but I&#x27;ve heard of others even in product areas who&#x27;ve experienced similar.) You never know when you&#x27;ll be pulled from a project, projects are developed and then handed-off vs. letting the builders continue to improve them, and promo becomes a political fantasy as you shift around.<p>Reorgs are a fact of enterprise life, but the frequency of them at Google is a huge sign of lack of strategic direction and bad planning. Absorbing HUGE numbers of new employees into this constantly shifting structure is a recipe for disaster. (OTOH, documentation tends to be very good.) And buying up tons of real estate when so many people either WFH full time or are hybrid? Crazy.<p>Then there&#x27;s the way projects are managed. I never thought I&#x27;d miss JIRA so much. There are always too many cooks in the kitchen and everlasting approval processes.<p>To all the amazingly smart, dedicated, and user-focused people still there - you rock. To the board - time to shake things up.<p>[edit - fixed typo]