[harisund]

I hope you are kidding.

When you are getting money the amounts Google pays their employees, you couldn't care less if everyone in the world says "we hate you, you suck"

Plus, once you have Google on your resume, it's hard to imagine a company that will reject you so ... again, no one cares if they are hated.

[gentleman11]

Internal resistance led to (allegedly) discontinuing that Chinese search surveillance engine (dragonfly was it?). Google employees care a lot more than typical ones it seems and we should give them more credit than “I hope your kidding”

[ashtonkem]

This is an incredibly naive view of how morale works. Money is only temporarily protective against the psychological effects of a bad job.

[hn_throwaway_99]

> When you are getting money the amounts Google pays their employees, you couldn't care less if everyone in the world says "we hate you, you suck"

That kind of exquisitely proves my point. Back 15-20 years ago, the pitch was "if you're really smart and want to make gobs of money, but don't mind selling your soul, go to Wall Street. If you want to change the world (for the better) go to Silicon Valley."

Yes, of course that was always somewhat marketing speak, but it was also fairly representative of how people thought. This idea that people are just in it for the money, or just in it to "build your resume", are the kind of behaviors Googlers from an earlier era would have looked at with utter distain.