Absolutely. If they are not very careful with precisely this type of issue, it will become "the nomenklatura vs. the proles", and result in the leadership being

Absolutely. If they are not very careful with precisely this type of issue, it will become "the nomenklatura vs. the proles", and result in the leadership being insulated from what happens at the edges of the organisation - which would ensure the end of profitable innovation at Google. This is an issue faced by all "unequal" social structures, including countries, tribes, corporations, governments, and others, and every human structure throughout history has required mechanisms for managing it. Google is not exempt.