On: Larry Page's Comeback (2014)

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If engineers report to PMs, your organization is broken. Love it when our competitors do it. Makes poaching great engineers really easy.

[ur-whale → 908B64B197]

Note that Google currently has a PM in the CEO's seat.

[ignoramous → ur-whale]

To be fair, one simply doesn't go from running a humble org competing with the Alexa Toolbar to running all of Alphabet with just PM mindset.

[paxys → ur-whale]

Sundar worked as an engineer, management consultant and product manager before moving up the management ranks at Google. So labeling him as a PM isn't accurate.

[brown9-2 → ur-whale]

There is a lot of conflating of “project manager” and “product manager” in these comments.