When I started at Google it has a very Montessori-like atmosphere. Really brilliant people there who were given a lot of autonomy to go and figure things out.

When I started at Google it has a very Montessori-like atmosphere. Really brilliant people there who were given a lot of autonomy to go and figure things out. By the time I left, almost nine years later, the culture was dominated by fear and conflicting top-down directives — and the autonomy was gone.