Even though managing is hard, that's not an excuse for being a dick when you have huge reserves of cash and could be giving employees a lot more in the way of a

Even though managing is hard, that's not an excuse for being a dick when you have huge reserves of cash and could be giving employees a lot more in the way of autonomy, compensation, and advancement. Companies like Google and Microsoft can afford not to be evil. I agree with you that Google is probably no worse than the other large tech companies, but I wouldn't call that an endorsement. For one example of something I don't like about tech culture, these firms have a tendency to throw their employees under the bus when the economy gets bad. Banks have layoffs. It's just something you get used to on the Street. Good people get let go, take their severance packages, and find other jobs. No big deal. On the other hand, many tech companies, when they do the same thing, make it look like a wave of performance-based firings so they can say they've never had a layoff. Google still claims it has never had an engineering layoff, even though it's had waves of PIPs. That's slimy.