Joined Google in 2014 - from the people on my team I heard the place was much more magical in the years before. When Sundar started I remember the first thing p

Joined Google in 2014 - from the people on my team I heard the place was much more magical in the years before. When Sundar started I remember the first thing people were upset about was the handling of the holiday gift - Google changed it to a donation to charity instead and the communication of it upset. It wasn’t that we were not getting a holiday gift anymore (everyone acknowledged we had grown too large for that to last forever). It was that things were communicated as if it was not a cost saving measure and instead phrased that it was net generosity. IMO those kinds of things are what snowballed into Google becoming less of a magical place to work over time.