[occidentalcoder]

Former Googler here. It's worse than this. Google's perf/promo culture ensured that good ideas from the bottom never made it anywhere and created a disincentive for anyone to collaborate across teams. It's not a fun place to work. The pay is good and you get free food and massages and that sort of thing, but it's such a toxic work environment that those things don't make up for it unless you really only care about the money.