Is it just me, or do stories like this make it increasingly clear that working at large companies like Google, Amazon, etc are a mistake? Getting on a company

Is it just me, or do stories like this make it increasingly clear that working at large companies like Google, Amazon, etc are a mistake? Getting on a company that becomes Google/Amazon/etc (or more likely doesn't but that's life) is one thing, getting sucked into the corporate dystopia described in that blog post is quite another. I guess I'll continue to work at smallish start-ups because the idea of being swallowed by a programmer black-hole doesn't appeal :-)