A photo of a Google sign outside of its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google's office in Mountain View, California.
  • A former Googler said senior leaders there allowed the company to be filled with small fiefdoms.
  • Jonathan Bellack said Google was thus weighed down by midlevel managers debating decisions "for months."
  • Other former Googlers have previously criticized the company over management bureaucracy.

A former product manager at Google said the tech giant suffers from a management bureaucracy filled with small fiefdoms that weigh the company down over decisions that senior leaders failed to make.