I really think things started heading south when Sundar became CEO and proceeded to exchange much of the leadership.

He took over a company that was at the top of its game and fucking ran it into the ground in 4-5 years. He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company for years to come.

I couldn’t believe how quickly and radically Google changed and after a while, many of us cut our loses and left. This layoff got rid of many other long-timers for what seems to be no good reason.

We can only hope that all the solid engineers gravitate toward a company where the leadership is not completely incompetent.