[asvitkine]

People can absolutely get promoted for improving products, even if those products don't make the company money.

The problem is more likely a lack of prioritization at the leadership level.

[JAM1971]

> The problem is more likely a lack of prioritization at the leadership level.

Great. If you're in leadership why would you prioritize a feature making it easier for people to leave your platform when you could instead prioritize a new feature that might generate value for the company?

There's no incentive to make Takeout any better than it is today.

[vitiral]

False. If there's an army of people saying it's impossible to leave Google then fewer will use it.

[SR2Z]

> People can absolutely get promoted for improving products, even if those products don't make the company money.

Yeah, but there better be a high-up patron for these products because Google is notoriously stingy with promo.

Source: quit Google right after L3->L4 because another company was willing to offer me an extra $200k/yr and L5. I've since been promoted at THAT job, and am now looking again because they gave me a raise to the bottom of the next band and that's dumb.

[Aeolun]

> gave me a raise to the bottom of the next band and that's dumb

Why is that dumb? By your own account they’re already paying you at least 200k/year.

There’s a limit to how many large raises you can give if you intend to give x% for the rest of time.