Google engineers are paid pretty freaking well. Almost double of what a regular company would pay.
Even tech workers who mistakenly thought they were “too smart” to need a union actually need a union to balance out the uneven negotiating power. The house always wins.
Yes. And you have a choice. Agree to it or find some better place.
Demands of both employees and employers can be as unreasonable (within the law) as they want. As long as the whole process is voluntary and legal, I'm fine with it.
You don't like working long hours for extremely high pay, that's fine. Many people will happily take that deal.
Google engineers are paid well so they should have to work twice as hard? Google engineers are paid well, so they shouldn't complain about the contract under which they get paid changing to expect them to work 60-hour weeks?
This is a leading comment, but you're not willing to say the quiet part out loud, which is that you think they shouldn't get paid as well because others aren't paid as well. You're arguing for a race to the bottom which doesn't actually help you. You should be arguing for a race to the top (everyone should be paying their employees more), which might actually benefit you.
That's up to Google.
It's not like Google are at the tip top of the market for comp these days, and they haven't been for a long time. It's easy to make similar money without destroying your quality of life elsewhere.