Longtime Google engineers have it particularly bad. Some of it could be bad-faith promotion hunting I suppose, but the core problem is that their "find something to work on" culture leads to some insanely dysfunctional ideas around ownership. In the reverse, too; only at Google can you be the head engineer for a service necessary for $10B in ARR and never really realize it.

Also the internal tooling culture there is just insane. I'll never forget the day the last SUPER_ESSENTIAL_TOOL was marked as "Deprecated - do not use!" while the only replacement was still marked "Pre-release -- use at your own risk!". I can't pretend to know what dynamics led to that cause it was so far from my org, but I can't imagine they were healthy ones!