Perfect time to read again The Gervais Principle!

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Ah yes, "determinedly deluded loyalty to the company that will never be loyal to him".

Do they really? Or are you assuming?

I've seen a lot of their engineers here on HN defending Google's position, and very few of the anti-Google crowd here claim to be (x)googlers.

That said, I know a number of xooglers (myself included) who don't believe for a moment that this would have gotten off the ground if someone important hadn't opined on the usefulness WRT ad-serving.

I have seen engineers defend that position here and on Github, so unless you assume they're lying, I would take them at their word.

Of course not all of them do, Google is a big company.

More like the willfully blind engineers, disingenuously claim to believe that absurd bullshit. There's not a lot genuine left in that company.