I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.
FYI, HN doesn't really have markdown, so that link doesn't work. Instead, generally we do something like this:
> It was probably via this Quora answer[1]
> I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.
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> 1: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).