It's clearly more complicated than this, as people are pointing out, but I think your point is directionally true, and worth making. Maybe somebody else would h

It's clearly more complicated than this, as people are pointing out, but I think your point is directionally true, and worth making. Maybe somebody else would have raised the bar, maybe the bar wasn't raised as high as was claimed, maybe they even raised the wrong bar. But, Google did pressure many other employers to change in a generally positive direction, so I'd give them that. Analogously: I'm not a fan of Starbucks coffee, but I recognize that (where I live) specialty coffee places mostly did not even exist before SBUX popularized the idea that coffee didn't have to come out of a #10 can. You can raise the level of competition while not being the best yourself.