It seems that Chatterjee - the bad guy in your linked article - is now suing Google because he thinks he got canned for pointing out that his boss - Jeff Dean mentioned in the article discussed here - was knowingly publishing fraudulent claims.
"To be clear, we do NOT have evidence to believe that RL outperforms academic state-of—art and strongest
commercial macro placers. The comparisons for the latter were done so poorly that in many cases the commercial tool failed to run due to installation issues." and that's supposedly a screenshot from an internal presentation done by Jeff Dean.
As an outsider, I find it very difficult to judge if Chatterjee was a bad and expensive hire (because he suppressed good results by coworkers) or if he was a very valuable employee (because he tried to prevent publishing false statements).
"To be clear, we do NOT have evidence to believe that RL outperforms academic state-of—art and strongest commercial macro placers. The comparisons for the latter were done so poorly that in many cases the commercial tool failed to run due to installation issues." and that's supposedly a screenshot from an internal presentation done by Jeff Dean.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/26/satrajit_vs_google.pdf
As an outsider, I find it very difficult to judge if Chatterjee was a bad and expensive hire (because he suppressed good results by coworkers) or if he was a very valuable employee (because he tried to prevent publishing false statements).