Last year I had the opportunity to work with some Xooglers. According to their CVs an Linkedin they were with Google for a year or two. All with job titles that trim down to project managers. All very junior.

Still, considering that Google only hires the best of the best I expected to work with ambitious, clever people.

They were the worst. The showed me graphs, fancy presentations and project plans in some saas tools (lots of them).

I soon realized that they did not have a clue what they were doing. Neither could they answer ”who does what when" nor even show defined measurable goals for the projects they were managing. And they were not able to make any decisions at all.

If they are an example of Googles middle (project) management it's quite clear why Google does not progress anymore in 2020 and lots of their products rot away on an at best mediocre level.

In my point of view Google needs a major crisis (like Microsoft under the late Balmer) before it becomes the innovationleader again - which it once has been.