Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit
&gt; <i>&quot;Maybe we were just a bit naive,&quot; Cornet said.</i><p>They likely were, and think of me what you like but I&#x27;ve noticed the same with most Americans I&#x27;ve known. Not sure why that is but apparently there&#x27;s some good amount of propaganda going on in the USA and people apparently believe it. Meanwhile people have to pay $5000 after an ambulance picks them up. Or $90000 for semi-trivial medical procedures.<p>I believe asking yourself &quot;is my country really like I believe it is?&quot; is a good food for thought even it&#x27;s a bit sideways to this here topic at hand.<p>--<p>On topic:<p>I can sympathize with the author. I know what it is to have been a long time in a company; it becomes much more than a workplace. You have friends, you even have people you invite to your Sunday barbecues. It&#x27;s also very likely that a number of internal processes are going smoother for you because you know whom to ping and what exactly to write in a form so your stuff gets done quicker. You have job stability and unless you are rocking the boat too much your seat is likely 99% safe.<p>All of those become true stoppers when you start pondering leaving. They pull you back and make you doubt yourself and your idea of switching company.<p>But unlike a number of commenters here I find nothing hypocritical about the decision to go to Twitter. We don&#x27;t know how Twitter operates internally; maybe it&#x27;s still better than Google. Or maybe they are still after FAANG level of wages so are ready to make some ethical compromises for them?<p>In any case, immediately discounting somebody&#x27;s opinion on a corporation because they joined another corporation misses a lot of context, is flamey and non-constructive and almost smells like a paid troll, and is something I don&#x27;t expect HN to condone. But sadly, here we go, it&#x27;s the top comment here.