Erase from your vocabulary the phrase: “At Google we …”. Nothing more effectively signals a separate tribe, and nothing makes it easier to ignore you. Instead, listen to people, understand their problems and challenges, and use first principles explanations to demonstrate you’ve listened and understood. Then and only then suggest solutions, and use those solutions to teach different approaches, where appropriate. If you must use a phrase to directly reference a Google approach, try “In the past, when trying to achieve … I’ve found … to work well.”

Be humble. Humility is endless, relatively cheap, and makes friends.

I wonder if xooglers SREs would be interested in organizing regular surveys. It could be useful for both understanding the market landscape, but also to see patterns in career/personal satisfaction trajectories. Current googlers could find it very useful to know when it is time to move on.