The events the article described do appear unusual for Google, I hear mostly good things too but there have been quite a few reports of terrible working conditi

The events the article described do appear unusual for Google, I hear mostly good things too but there have been quite a few reports of terrible working conditions in the "bets" that have some amount of autonomy. The main one that comes to mind is Nest, which was asked to work weekends: http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-going-on-at-nest-2016-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-going-on-at-nest-2016-2 I feel like perhaps Google isn't as strict on their management as it is on its own. I'll also note that while I hear mostly good things about Google, they are mixed. It seems a bad manager can certainly make life pretty bad for engineers, despite the company as a whole being generally good.