Google has always had the company culture of not infantilizing their employees and broadly trusting them to do the right thing. This reflects in many many polic

Google has always had the company culture of not infantilizing their employees and broadly trusting them to do the right thing. This reflects in many many policies and general 'culture'. You can install software on the laptop as long as you have the right license for it, and there are centralized tools to check for potentially dangerous binaries and things like that.