And so Google can continue to lose talent to competitors, or have potential hires go off to start their own startups they can then pay a premium for, while keeping "good enough" talent for existing initiatives.
I'm starting to realize why Google is absolutely terrible at any sort of customer-facing product.
talent.. what is talent? they have a set of skills they look for. this guy doesn't have what they need. for you talent means to be the author of a popular tool, but for Google means more; means also boring stuff like being good at communicating, being good in a team, etc. who knows how many of these this guy failed
I'm starting to realize why Google is absolutely terrible at any sort of customer-facing product.