There has been a string of articles in the past few weeks about Google not being the same company it use to be. The culture, the strive, the attitude and passion, the do no evil, seems to have somewhat gone out of the window. I don’t have any inside information, but I found a former Googler Jonathan Rockway comment about it on Reddit and wanted to share it with you.
The article he was referencing when he commented was Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ at CNBC. There is also this Medium post I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. by Ross LaJeunesse.
Now, here is what Jonathan said in response to the CNBC story:
I found it pretty interesting coming from a software engineer who worked at Google.
Forum discussion at Reddit.