That's one of the things that I hear people say about Google - that you end up doing small unimportant work. Having seen the internals, I think that possibility

That's one of the things that I hear people say about Google - that you end up doing small unimportant work. Having seen the internals, I think that possibility is overstated. In my perspective, Google is a fairly good example of an egalitarian workplace where everyone (engineers) is equal to each other with ownership of what they work on and its success/failure. Accountability doesn't really get moved around - it's on you. That's my limited impression at least. I'm sure other people see it differently. http://blogs.wpcarey.asu.edu/knowit/googles-egalitarian-culture-education-evangelist-preaches-the-gospel-of-creativity-2/ http://blogs.wpcarey.asu.edu/knowit/googles-egalitarian-cult...