The folks at Google are already working at a megacorp. That small and scrappy ship sailed two decades ago. If I had to guess, most Google engineers aren’t work

The folks at Google are already working at a megacorp. That small and scrappy ship sailed two decades ago. If I had to guess, most Google engineers aren’t working on cool greenfield stuff, they’re maintaining and extending huge legacy projects with decades worth of cruft, where minuscule changes take days to land. If you want great engineers to work on that stuff, you need to pay them and shower them with perks. Otherwise they’ll move somewhere small and scrappy that’s actually fun.