Comment by cmrdporcupine

It's funny that I agree with most or all of these principles but don't feel like my 10 years at Google accord with most of this. I wouldn't say I learned these things at Google, but learned them before (and a bit after) and was continually frustrated about how many of them were not paid attention to at Google at all?

Incentive structure inside Google is impaired.

I do think Google engineering culture does bias against excessive abstraction and for clean readable code and that's good. But acting in the user's interest, timely shipping, etc... not so much.