> that would risk Google losing its lustre for talented programmers. I suspect that ship has already sailed, any of the postdocs or senior software engineers I

> that would risk Google losing its lustre for talented programmers. I suspect that ship has already sailed, any of the postdocs or senior software engineers I know wouldn't touch Google with a 10-foot pole these days. There's a feeling I suspect that they've become too corporate, and that they could fire you pretty much anytime and the first thing you'd know about it would be your access card suddendly not working.