(I think random (non-leadership) GDM employees generally have a lot of freedom while employees of other companies have much less in-practice freedom (except for maybe longer time OpenAI employees who I think have a lot of freedom).)
(My sense is this changed a lot after the Deepmind/GBrain merger and ChatGPT, and the modern GDM seems to give people a lot less slack in the same way, though you are probably still directionally correct)
(I think random (non-leadership) GDM employees generally have a lot of freedom while employees of other companies have much less in-practice freedom (except for maybe longer time OpenAI employees who I think have a lot of freedom).)
(My sense is this changed a lot after the Deepmind/GBrain merger and ChatGPT, and the modern GDM seems to give people a lot less slack in the same way, though you are probably still directionally correct)
(Huh, good to know this changed. I wasn’t aware of this.)