[m0zg]

> in to the company's tech stack and development ethos

To be fair, at least in Google's case that's not difficult to do, because those technical decisions are grounded in reality and their infra and dev processes are some of the best in the world. And it's not like it used to be that you can't use your knowledge on the outside. The world is largely moving in that direction. In my estimation the rest of the world is now catching up to where Google was 10 years ago.

A bigger problem is activism. You have no choice but to see the most insane, unhinged behavior and rhetoric imaginable on internal social networking website, and that'd irk some, especially older folks who tend to be somewhat more conservative in their views. Nowadays you also don't get to ignore it sometimes (unlike, say, 10 years ago), because some of it is seeping into official company policy. It's unprofessional, and dumb from management standpoint to allow this, but the asylum is run by the insane at FANGs.