Comment by siliconc0w
1 day ago
It's also paradoxically the talent in tech that isolates them. The internal tech stack is so incredibly specialized, most Google products have to either be built for internal users or external users.
Agree there are lots of other contributing causes like culture, incentives, security, etc.
haha remember Steve Yegge's Platform Rant? [1]
nothing changed...
[1] Ref: he mistakenly posted what was meant to be an internal memo, publicly on G+. He quickly took it down but of course The Internet Never Forgets https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611