If I were in your spot, with the benefit of the hindsight, I'd continue riding the gravy train until asked to leave. Don't fuck up too badly, do your job, just

If I were in your spot, with the benefit of the hindsight, I'd continue riding the gravy train until asked to leave. Don't fuck up too badly, do your job, just don't worry about it too much. Get off the promo treadmill. Spend bare minimum of effort on work. Put the rest of the efforts into your hobbies and relationships. There's really no rational reason for you to worry about obscure corporate bullshit which will be gone and forgotten in 3 years. It pays the bills, but beyond that it's not your "life", so don't treat it as such. That's one of the benefits of being an _employee_ rather than, say, an _owner_: you get to leave work at work. What you _think_ Google wants from you and what it actually wants might be two different things. For as long as they choose to employ you (and moreover, promote you), you can be sure they're getting a good deal as far as their requirements are concerned.