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> When you hire some PM or brand manager who will be responsible for things like this ask them precisely how they will navigate this situation.

This is good advice for most companies, but for Google itself who could be trusted to evaluate these answers? From what I can see, their current product management is inept.

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The problem is brand management doesn't come up on leetcode, so they can't test for it in interviews

This doesn't even make sense. Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

That being said, who the heck greenlit this change? This is parody level mismanagement.

The subtext is that Google's excessive emphasis on engineering over pretty much any other discpline is what led them into this mess. The parent comment was a joke

> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

I took the original poster to mean that there should be leet-marketing questions for brand manager positions, like there are leetcode questions for developer positions.

> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

(i think OP was making a joke)

It's not just that they greenlit this change, it's that it's far from the first time they've pulled something like this. It is utterly baffling to me that there isn't someone in senior management who can say "What? No, that's utterly stupid, you can't do that".

lol, i like how people cannot understand sarcasm...

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