People leave big companies for smaller companies for a variety of reasons that don't have to do with money: product, culture, team, technology, or just for the

People leave big companies for smaller companies for a variety of reasons that don't have to do with money: product, culture, team, technology, or just for the sake of working at a smaller company. And for the record, Google is not a perfect Utopia that has a monopoly on all the good developers with a flawless interviewing system.