No company employees other than Google are known to be as vocal about business decisions,AFAIK. Culture matters. The culture which Larry,Sergey and others started is reaping benefits today. I might be wrong,but if we look at companies in general, Google is the closest to having a democracy-type of vibe.

"amazonians" isn't even a thing. there are various articles about how toxic their work culture is(as ordered from bezos downward). right now i'd say they're like how Microsoft used to be under ballmer except with employees actually treated like kept pets. they argue against each others ideas constantly but anything from the top is taken as sacred law. bezos probably said "I want to get into the surveillance game" and all the poor employees got to work arguing about how best to get there

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/08/former-amazon-employe...