At that times PM had no say in product direction TBH. It was all very SWE driven

And at that time they were also operating with enthusiastic Engineers who can’t write bubble sort on their first try but then started hiring using the methods that led to “Cracking the coding interview” and terrible products

>can’t write bubble sort on their first try

lol how do you expect to program if you don't know how every common subroutine works in exhaustive detail?

How hard is it to make product decisions for a new browser? "Make it render the page like IE".