Employees of Google who hold ranks less than Director or Principal Engineer should quit if they don't like it. If you're a director or PE you should communicate your opinion to Thomas Kurian directly.
I personally influenced Google's direction in a major business area while only a lowly senior SWE. It's an area that leaders in google then messed up very badly (dammit, jeff, you had ONE JOB).
I quit recently, citing a number of things that I wasn't OK with, one of which is that I felt that the company gave far too much credence to a small group of of noisy people in ways that are hurting the company.
BTW I'd like to take this opportunity to show a person I disagree with completely, but respect immensely because she's one of the most impactful activists I've ever seen: https://onezero.medium.com/google-workers-lost-a-leader-but-... She helped lead the drive to remove the Real Names requirement from Google+ by directly convincing the principal engineer who ran the real names mapreduce to stop doing it. Of course google wrote a nice
"update on google plus" which is no longer available, but see more here https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-...
I personally influenced Google's direction in a major business area while only a lowly senior SWE. It's an area that leaders in google then messed up very badly (dammit, jeff, you had ONE JOB).
I quit recently, citing a number of things that I wasn't OK with, one of which is that I felt that the company gave far too much credence to a small group of of noisy people in ways that are hurting the company.
BTW, I, like most long termers, are granted Google stock and some tiny amount of voting shares and some employees have exercised this right https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/google-employees-presenting-...
BTW I'd like to take this opportunity to show a person I disagree with completely, but respect immensely because she's one of the most impactful activists I've ever seen: https://onezero.medium.com/google-workers-lost-a-leader-but-... She helped lead the drive to remove the Real Names requirement from Google+ by directly convincing the principal engineer who ran the real names mapreduce to stop doing it. Of course google wrote a nice "update on google plus" which is no longer available, but see more here https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-...