“Like Meta and Amazon, Google has hired aggressively over the past couple of years, onboarding 30,000 new employees in the first nine months of 2022 and bringing its total headcount to 186,779, according to a company filing.”
A former program manager wrote that “Google is basically a slime mold” and that simple things now take forever. The document was last updated in 2019, and Google hired 30,000 more people in nine months of 2022 anyway. The 2018 warning from more than a dozen vice presidents went to Sundar Pichai too. Leadership read the diagnosis for years and kept feeding the mold.