I wasn't responding to those exact points but rather to the hagiography and idealization of Google as a place without forced attrition. Google has great food a

I wasn't responding to those exact points but rather to the hagiography and idealization of Google as a place without forced attrition. Google has great food and great perks, but it was one of my worst employment experiences of my entire professional career. Amazon, warts-and-all, was far better to me and for me. And I haven't even mentioned the time in 2014 when the manager of Android Store recommendations asked to speak with me and so I showed up on the googleplex, only to have him walk me out of the building to the swamp behind the googleplex to tell me that yes I'm on some sort of blacklist and he would make an exception to bring me in if I were willing to work on these recommendations. Now this is really interesting and nearly industrial espionage because I was secretly working on Amazon product recommendations at the time and he should not have known I had any such experience because we had just won our first web lab. It all ended when I asked him if I could use GPUs for this and he said no. So my point is just because they don't have forced attrition doesn't make them a great employer across the board because WTF was that about?