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y'all going to laugh, but I really believed it. I drank the kool-aid. this was the mid-00s, a tech company with a motto "don't be evil" still felt daring rather than cringe – for an alienated techie like past me, at least; my politically aware friends tried to warn me; but I didn't realise that Google leveraged its fine-tuned advertising machinery also for recruiting, and I swallowed the whole thing.
Last boost from @elilla is a good read and I encourage you to read the whole thread. I see many parallels in my former employer.
@cadadr Or it goes the way of Cisco and the principled founders are forced out.