My takeaway isn't that Google is awful. It seems Google is just like every other place, full of intolerant biased people. Which is a sadder conclusion really.
I think there’s an expectation that the community at google would be more open.
It’s kind of like how that one Alexander Scott article, people of like minds tend to coalesce, leading to things like almost nobody on reddit being anti-abortion despite it being one of the most popular websites in the US.
I’m sure a lot of us work in places where basically everyone is uncomfortable with police brutality. The fact that the Google team wasn’t (along with other points in the article) could lead to the hypothesis that Google in fact has a bit of a more conservative culture
Collective ego is super fascinating when you're used to stepping back and seeing how pervasive it is in our lives. That requires the mental tools and a habit of picking it out though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDj6LBW55aU
My takeaway isn't that Google is awful. It seems Google is just like every other place, full of intolerant biased people. Which is a sadder conclusion really.