No one like Google?
I reccomend to read the (a little bit longer) thread of Morgan Knutson, a User Interface designer, or better a graphic designer which have work at Google, more precisely on Google Plus Project.
Clearly is own opinion to the thousand of other employees. Statistically is normal to find someone not happy like otherwise.
Morgan speaks now because the Google plus is dead. "I should air my dirty laundry" and for me this situation is part of human being. I think most of you have meet ex colleague which out of the box spoke rude to the company and the high levels.
But the Morgan thread is still interesting. Google build is own character where is different to "traditional companies", tennis field's, relax zone, kitchen plenty of fruit and other stuff. The usual open space where informal desk can be lived from happy people... well at least..
This "projection" of a company must be seen with some doubts, the model proposed is similar to college campus, but all of this benefits are here for "extend" the work hours. Here in Europe we have the usual 8 hours, but is not a mystery in this place the time are more longer, like 16 hours at day.
In other side if i know my grandmother stands of death bed i will not work for someone and honestly my mind cannot "think" in this condition. If the boss understan well, otherwise can be fuck himself.
What Morgan say can be see on the final product's. Lot of big G project are killed every year, some of them out and no one knows, some are double or triple functionality that are still existing. Less of none synergy to other products, often there are no profit or idea of profit.
This situation was no new for me, a friend of mine tell me the exact situation of another big IT company where lot of people and lot of money put in project where are not so important for the company itself and more important was no direct profit from this. At the end bad result for bad bosses'.
If we put in the line all IT companies we can see all of them have similar prodblems. Maybe Apple have less because of strong lead management and more clear target, but we have see and will see how some problem's occur. Google in my opinion is more messy than other. The other day i made a joke after hear the plus closure "one day Google tell us that Google will be closed"