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Yup. It's there if you go looking for it but it's 100% invisible if you don't.

except when it makes it to the front page of hn.

But isn't that the problem? When we see the news media blasting articles about internal disputes most Googlers hadn't heard of, that could mean the internal culture is secretly toxic and the employees are too brainwashed to notice.

Or it could mean that people are selectively leaking a misleading picture of the company.

Google has 80k employees. If just 10k employees have heard of some kerfuffle before it winds up on tech crunch, that's still a _lot_ of people.

But maybe the specifics of some individual disputes aren't widely known as the events are unfolding; still, lots of the stuff described did get wider airtime internally before being 'leaked'.

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