Google has lost all of its allure. I once dreamed of working there. Now, I think their employees drink the kool aid hard, and they are generally inept. Working at google isn't really impressive.
While those are cool open source projects, Googles actual products are the things that suck. Take GCP - they don't really dogfood ANYTHING. They still run half their stuff in borg! AWS dogfoods almost all of their services. The polish and integrations speak for themselves.
And look at their other product lines - android, communication apps, etc. They are generally a mess besides their absolute core offerings (Gmail, gdrive, and maps)
How is it that the "best engineers" in the world can't make good products?
