A 140k employee company is somewhat bureaucratic, churns 10% of VPs and has a CEO who shockingly takes time thinking through big decisions. Scandalous. https://t.co/HBID5XGjf4

— Brian Morrissey (@bmorrissey) June 21, 2021

Ok my slightly more serious take:

NYT reports that Google 2x'ed headcount and 3x'ed value.

Wonder if the value would have gone up 5x if they'd halved the headcount. https://t.co/cxKTcHGPNs

— st. (@seyitaylor) June 21, 2021

On the surface, things appear great at Google. But there is a growing contingent of current and former execs who see some cracks emerging and they see it as an issue stemming from Sundar Pichai's leadership. Here's our story 1/x https://t.co/9IWUCUzMYw

— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) June 21, 2021

Also the answer to the question of whether a nice guy can be an effective leader is definitely yes since Satya is a super nice person. However he's also ruthlessly pragmatic (e.g. there were annual layoffs his first few years undoing the Nokia purchase) while still being nice.

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) June 21, 2021

Google is going through it's Ballmer era with Mini-Microsoft style complaints that there are too many employees, no new cash cows, top employees defecting to hotter companies and most recent products have been duds. The company needs a culture change.https://t.co/BhMorjEu82

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) June 21, 2021

What if being Big Tech is actually bad for the companies?

Great @daiwaka read on fears inside Google that leadership is indecisive and risk averse.

(Also, wasn't avoiding all that the point of creating the Alphabet structure?) https://t.co/PSGHNkLvbm

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) June 21, 2021

"During his time leading Google, it has doubled its work force to about 140,000 people, and Alphabet has tripled in value."

LOL he is failing like everyone has been saying Tim Cook has been failing for past 5 years

Takes time to make big decisions! https://t.co/ce2CfH8t0V

— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) June 21, 2021

We were JUST talking about how Google appears to be moving in slow motion on the Vergecast last week. This all just feels like what happens when a monopoly is printing cash; no one wants risk new things unless forced https://t.co/bCvdZmvevh pic.twitter.com/jGslxF7faG

— nilay patel (@reckless) June 21, 2021

All roads lead to the age-old Google thing: they are an advertising company with a monopoly no matter how badly they want to be other things too.

Sundar's approach seems to suggest he is aware of the reality, which is his fiduciary duty. https://t.co/4lfDrXBrBB

— Stephen Hall (@hallstephenj) June 21, 2021

Google's growing bureaucracy is rattling more execs, according to NYT report. https://t.co/srcIdkGr7G

— Jennifer Elias (@jenn_elias) June 21, 2021

Google arranged for 9 current and former execs to offer a different perspective. They said Sundar is not an autocratic leader and gives his deputies room to make their own decisions. He is also more decisive in private and has taken steps to move some decisions off his plate. 3/x

— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) June 21, 2021

Brutal take down. https://t.co/JCGRi9Z1ov pic.twitter.com/8QcCOlpLyR

— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) June 21, 2021

"One former executive said the company’s risk aversion was embodied by a state of perpetual research and development known internally as “pantry mode.” Teams will stash away products in case a rival creates something new and Google needs to respond quickly." https://t.co/nZbsIGA0Cz

— Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) June 21, 2021

Google makes billions every quarter and looks tougher than ever. But some company executives worry it has become slow footed, in part because of the leadership of Sundar Pichai. https://t.co/Jrd6Ujnv3j

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) June 21, 2021

Google weighed buying Shopify, but Sundar shot it down because the price was too high.

From good @daiwaka yarn about a Google restless with its CEO. https://t.co/CminP1O3Ux

— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) June 21, 2021

it's such a dramatically different company than it was in 2008. a now almost imperceptible moral compass and dominated by timidityhttps://t.co/9LMB1qJcdQ

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) June 21, 2021

Everyone agrees that Sundar is a thoughtful and caring leader, but some exes said he chews over decisions for too long. A few compared him to Hamlet. With the Google’s many workplace culture issues, they see his attempts to lower the temperature as ineffective 2/x

— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) June 21, 2021

NYTimes goes after Sundar Pichai, for being indecisive and soft.

(What, was Tim Cook not available?!) https://t.co/DZpwswXVvZ

— Kontra (@counternotions) June 21, 2021

I've yet to hear a former Google exec actually articulate specifically what they want Sundar to do differently besides "move faster" and "be more decisive" https://t.co/HVJakrzKeg

— Gerrit De Vynck (@GerritD) June 21, 2021

I've yet to hear a former Google exec actually articulate specifically what they want Sundar to do differently besides "move faster" and "be more decisive" https://t.co/HVJakrzKeg

— Gerrit De Vynck (@GerritD) June 21, 2021

Google is going through it's Ballmer era with Mini-Microsoft style complaints that there are too many employees, no new cash cows, top employees defecting to hotter companies and most recent products have been duds. The company needs a culture change.https://t.co/BhMorjEu82

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) June 21, 2021

it's such a dramatically different company than it was in 2008. a now almost imperceptible moral compass and dominated by timidityhttps://t.co/9LMB1qJcdQ

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) June 21, 2021

What if being Big Tech is actually bad for the companies?

Great @daiwaka read on fears inside Google that leadership is indecisive and risk averse.

(Also, wasn't avoiding all that the point of creating the Alphabet structure?) https://t.co/PSGHNkLvbm

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) June 21, 2021

NYT focuses on personal leadership styles in this article on Google’s slouch. It misses the mark. Let me explain—

Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company’s Successhttps://t.co/PRmTcawE5M

— Chris Hoofnagle (@hoofnagle) June 21, 2021

Yes, a nice guy can absolutely be an effective leader. I have seen @sundarpichai be both for a long time and if you don't want to believe me, look at $GOOG (274.56% up in the past 5 years).https://t.co/KZOLB9abmk

— Caesar Sengupta (@caesars) June 22, 2021

あのGoogleでさえ大企業病には勝てないという話。
大きくなると腐るなら大きくしなければいいのに、人は絶対にそれはしないんだよね。

Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company's Success - Slashdot https://t.co/WXd4sukYCn

— かず (@Kazzz) June 21, 2021