This is definitely untrue. I've worked at Google, and salaries were shared internally very much in the open. The official response was something like "we disc

This is definitely untrue. I've worked at Google, and salaries were shared internally very much in the open. The official response was something like "we discourage sharing your salary because we think it's bad for the working atmosphere, but we won't stop you". I shared my salary publicly and there wasn't any form of retaliation.