Google is already being ruined by this tiny minority of sanctimonious blowhards. This is just a move to give more power to themselves to push their own political agenda in Google. Personally I want nothing to do with them, and I'd prefer that they just leave the company if they're unhappy. There's still lots of companies that want to hire software engineers, though of course they may find that nobody else puts up with their nonsense either.
These are the people behind the Google Graveyard, the company's awful track record on UX and product design, and its core business strategy of making you, the user, the product through data monetization?
I'm saying that those are major customer-facing reasons for why Google is seen as not good these days, not inside baseball culture wars that could be attributable to a "tiny minority of sanctimonious blowhards".
It’s less of a reach than you think. These people may not be directly responsible for those decisions, but their distractions have allowed a lot of the people responsible for those decisions to bully them through. They’ve also created a climate where the people who push back against those bad decisions are uncomfortable or outright persecuted.
> They’ve also created a climate where the people who push back against those bad decisions are uncomfortable or outright persecuted.
I can guarantee you that there are AWU members who have tried to push back against product decisions by Google that you aren't a fan of, and been unsuccessful in doing so. Perhaps with more political force, they'll be better able to keep bad product decisions in check ;)
