Actually Google was amazing in those times and didn't fire anybody in the 2008 recession that I lived through. Eric Schmidt was focusing on a vision where we ca

Actually Google was amazing in those times and didn't fire anybody in the 2008 recession that I lived through. Eric Schmidt was focusing on a vision where we can do great things, 20% project was real (I had one), which of course just meant extra work, as it didn't help in promotions (something I had to learn of course as an idealist). I would do this part again, but what I didn't realize at that time is that with 5x higher salary than before I should have spent much more money on balancing the disadvantages of living in a place where the local language is impossible to learn (Swiss German in Zurich).