"Morally opposed to Google" affects a tiny sliver of professionals who boycott Google products or choose to use it despite allegedly being opposed to it.
I once met a bank director that would call Google “those hippies”. In his view Googlers where “not enough money-centered”.
What about former Microsoft employees? Amazon employees?
Is big tech an ethical issue for you? Or is it just Google?
If you go from Google or similarly large company to a small startup, there's a radically different reality and workstyle required. Any time I see someone with big company experience especially their immediately previous role, it's an orange flag. I know to dig into why a startup and whether they are willing to "repent" their previous ways.
BigCo employees are much more likely to call unnecessary whole team meetings, unnecessarily drag out feature planning, drag their feet on getting MVPs out in favor of a entirely complete solution, propose doing things "the way <x> does it" and it's like "... cool, we don't have the resources and headcount to support that really."
With that said, generally these people have a much deeper knowledge of their particular stack, are valuable to have as long as you can harness them correctly and direct their energies towards much later in the startup.
This assumes they were always at G or other big co
2023? Lmao not even close. Anyone with a heartbeat and memorized leets can receive an offer, and the offers aren't even particular competitive.
Ex-Microsoft people and ex-accenture people are never setting foot again in our organisation
May I ask why you this is the case?