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Au contraire. This is exactly the Google of today vs back then's Google.

The Google of today focuses only on social and mobile and, GoogleX aside, will not green-light anything that will not benefit those two. You can ask anybody who works there how the 20% project time policy has changed or how certain teams have all the resources and cool stuff while others struggle.

Android under Sundar Pichai is not much better than it was under Andy, although I'm glad the latter is gone. And Vic Gundotra, well, he's one big hypocrite.

Google is still a great place to work, but the politics and trying to create the next Facebook have pretty much ruined its culture.