> >...people externally often think Google is on some evil plan... > The real bad guys don't ever think they are evil. At least seen from the inside, it's oft

> >...people externally often think Google is on some evil plan... > The real bad guys don't ever think they are evil. At least seen from the inside, it's often funny (and sad) to see all kinds of crazy speculation about the greater evil goal of nefarious decisions made, all the while whatever is happening is usually a mixture of software bugs and incompetence on our side. It's like a clown show, where the evil mastermind turns out to just be me incorrectly checking for a null value in some if condition, or my PM having no idea how to rationalize two features together. I guess that comes with large corporation status, and a certain failure to communicate. Not sure if it's avoidable at all. It does teach you something about perception vs intent, I guess.