Google has been secretly incompetent for at least a decade now, probably more.

It's been weird. They started out a head-neck-and-torso above everyone else in competence. Interviews were neigh impossible, and it was a hyper-elite team and a dream work environment.

Then they screwed up, and hired a fifth of a million people.

Wouldn't surprise me too much. With the amount of failures they've had (Google Stadia immediately springs to mind, as well as Google+).