[raxxorrax]

Heh, it certainly visualized his decline in hope very well. Google was a cool company once and some of its products and tech still are, but you simply have to manage your expectations when a companies goes public. It stops belonging to the people working there.

Also, companies have proven to be inept to tackle social problems, even if they genuinely wanted to.

[shadowgovt]

For me, the beginning of the end of my enchantment with the company was when one of the founders responded to a major internal scandal at TGIF with the thought that he didn't want to deal with this distraction; he just wanted to make cool things.

And my internal response was "Friend, you manage a ten-thousand-person company. Garage tinkerers have the luxury of their job being 'make cool things.' Your job is people."