[bsvalley]

Reality is that most of the engineers at Google don't work on google search nor google map. They work on "smaller" projects that don't necessarily reach billions of users. It doesn't change the fact that everything has to be engineered in order to work for a large amount of users, true, but do you really get that reach? nope unless you're in a very hot and selective team at G.

Also, your statement is valid for companies like Facebook, Uber, Apple, Amazon, etc. It is not a valid argument anymore in my opinion. But I totally get your point.

[jogjayr]

Google has 7 products with 1+ billion users.[1]

1. https://www.popsci.com/google-has-7-products-with-1-billion-...

[bsvalley]

Now let's look at the ration billion-user-products versus the total number of products. That'll give you the ration of employees having a huge impact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

And we're not even looking at the number of active users per product versus the total amount of gmail ID's enabled for all google products by default (e.g. Google+)