Yes. After leaving Google it took me a number of months to give my head a shake and start restoring old connections and networking habits from before I got stuc

Yes. After leaving Google it took me a number of months to give my head a shake and start restoring old connections and networking habits from before I got stuck there. Google at least is a bit of an echo chamber, and company policies around external open source contribution, etc. plus the arrogant internal engineering culture tends to de-emphasize networks and approaches from the outside. I imagine this is common across the SV BigCorps.