Google Plus also looks like a major milestone to me. I was initially a fanboy and dearly wanted to love it, but ultimately the UI design was too awful even for

Google Plus also looks like a major milestone to me. I was initially a fanboy and dearly wanted to love it, but ultimately the UI design was too awful even for me. It must have been quite frustrating for the legion of developers involved to realize they were working on a doomed project. The other major milestone in my mind was the leak of internal communications immediately after the Damore fiasco. I'm indifferent to his firing, which I consider to be uncontroversial by corporate standards. But reading Googlers (some in management) blocking and threatening each other, sometimes with firing or even industry blacklisting was shocking. I've never seen anything as unprofessional in any work context whatsoever, and it completely changed my view of Google.