"... I do not wish to work for Google. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever."

Are you really sure? How about in 15 years when nearly all programming jobs have been replaced with AI[1]. Programmers are jobless, hungry, homeless and without any access to healthcare. However Google bizarrely needs some keyboard firmware written because AI is pretty shitty when it comes to keyboard firmware.

[1] maybe even less dramatic, how about a year 2000 dot-com-style crash when you are out of work for 12 months?