Also the fact that they leaked an internal document to the world doesn't give me great confidence they won't do that again. There have already been instance of Google employees snooping in gmail:
Some of their software stack is open source. You can go have a look how it works for yourself, of course you have to trust that what they opened is what they run- but the foundations seem solid at least.
When they receive an email, they encrypt it with your public key. The private key is stored on their server encrypted with a passphrase only you know.
Assuming they don't backdoor their client to find out your passphrase, or log emails as they receive them, you're fairly safe from having an employee browse through your emails.
No, and no. I don't actually use them, I just looked up their implementation. It also looks like I was downvoted for clarifying how they say their system works. Obviously open source doesn't absolve you from having to trust the company running the software.