[ChuckMcM]

Well I can completely recommend working for Google as a way of helping to calibrate what you will or won't do for a 'decent bump' :-)

To its credit there are lots of great people there, and the parts that work well are insanely amazing. I marveled at how you could have both the best and worst day of your career on the same day at Google. My failing is that I tend to care too much about problems that aren't going to be solved.