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I was working in Google in years 2013-2016. It was amazing experience at that time. In no other place I have learned so much on how to run large organizations efficiently: before I was working in several companies having tens employees and 3 companies having hundreds of employees.

While Google could not compete with companies with tens of employees it was more efficient than companies having hundreds of them that I worked in.

Nevertheless something bad was already starting to happen: already at that time some employees working at Google for many years liked saying that new Google is like old Microsoft and new Microsoft is like an old Google.

I think that at some point Google stopped having an idea on how to grow their business using new product so they started growing revenue by other means: changing a product pricing model or cutting the cost.

I think that at some point company growth will converge to, more or less, GDP of market at which company is operating. This might be something hard to accept for the company that was growing so fast for so long.

Their stock price is up so they must be doing something right. I have no idea who they are these days but I know more restructuring is unlikely to solve it.
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