As Google has swelled in size to over 186,000 workers, many of its employees and even its CEO have complained that the company has become too slow, too bureaucratic, and not productive enough."Google is a place that prides itself on moving quickly to tackle world-scale problems," Alex Komoroske, a former Google program manager who worked across products including Chrome and Maps, wrote."I believe they are not specific to any one context, but rather emerge inherently any time there are individuals with autonomy who care deeply," Komoroske wrote.Like Meta and Amazon, Google has hired aggressively over the past couple of years, onboarding 30,000 new employees in the first nine months of 2022 and bringing its total headcount to 186,779, according to a company filing.Having slowed hiring last year, the company has been targeting areas where it can cut back on expensive projects, and even laid off some staff in subsidiary units."