It sounds like you're reading an awful lot into one person's experience. Lots of people at google love their jobs, feel challenged and fulfilled, see all the oppertunities google provides from touching the lives of millions to open source projects to 20% time to access to every project at the company etc etc etc as an amazing blessing.
Others have either bad experience, a bad attitude or maybe a little of both.
I don't think one guy's opinion is really a reflection of most employee's experiences at google.
I've been here 4 years. Haven't written one line of Java. Get paid to contribute to open source, have started 5 to 20 side projects, all open sourced. I could go into a lot more things but suffice it to say Google is by far the best place I've worked out of the 10 places I've worked so far.
Others have either bad experience, a bad attitude or maybe a little of both.
I don't think one guy's opinion is really a reflection of most employee's experiences at google.
I've been here 4 years. Haven't written one line of Java. Get paid to contribute to open source, have started 5 to 20 side projects, all open sourced. I could go into a lot more things but suffice it to say Google is by far the best place I've worked out of the 10 places I've worked so far.