&gt;<i>getting nothing in exchange but &#x27;experience&#x27;.</i><p>Are you assuming there&#x27;s no pay involved? I didn&#x27;t get that from the article; it&#x27;s not saying take a job for no pay. It&#x27;s saying it&#x27;s unreasonable to expect to get paid Google money at a startup.<p>In exchange for not getting paid what you&#x27;re worth to Google, you get to touch a lot of different areas and get a lot of experience with a lot of things.