Interesting.. I'm not sure I could accept an offer to work there, ethically. It would be like working at a tobacco company. Certainly wouldn't sleep well if I did. Granted, they're not exactly throwing offers at me so maybe it's mutual.

Are you calling google as unethical as a tobacco company? Whaaat.Care to explain?

Google is a force for advertisement proliferation, data collection, centralization, and a driving force behind much of the movement to ad-driven maximum engagement rage-driven clickbait media. These are all, I would argue, some of the currently worst evils of our time.

Massive surveillance, fraudulent restrictions such as requiring that Location be turned on in order to use GPS on your phone, would be 2 I can think of off the bat.

I left Google in April, and yes, I had some strong offers.

Yeah, that's also how I feel.

Though, imagine being able to leave behind the responsibility for all the technical debt you've accrued -- must be nice :)

On the other hand, I don't want to live like nothing matters. I want to build stuff. And I want to care about technical debt and keep it manageable.

Beyond a certain point, money is just numbers on a bank account or in stock portfolio. They have minimal impact on my life.

All the more reason to leave the goog and go work in the biomed or space industries. You're not pressured by money, so why build ad platforms for tech monopolies?