This is not a cultural-fit issue. Over 14 years, both the company culture and the employee's attitudes change quite a lot. Even an absolutely perfect fit at tim

This is not a cultural-fit issue. Over 14 years, both the company culture and the employee's attitudes change quite a lot. Even an absolutely perfect fit at time of hire is likely not to be that way for long. It would be amazing if this didn't happen, especially with the kind of growth Google has had during that period. I'd go even further and say that the FAANGs plan for this "time bomb" effect. They hire mostly impressionable kids, and the rate at which they hire is based on an expectation of short tenures (even by the historical standards of this young industry). Their famously high compensation levels are not just about attracting talent but also about keeping that tenure from being even shorter. They know that people's misgivings and frustrations will add up over time. They know that the "price of their souls" in Cornet's graph will keep increasing. Everything from their onboarding processes to their review/promotion processes to their engineering standards are designed to reduce and/or make up for this kind of attrition. Hiring people with a particular kind of politics doesn't make any sense at all for them, whether that kind is enlightened or yours. The only kind of culture they select for is around non-political issues such as technical approaches and work/collaboration styles.