Also a recent Xoogler. There was a pretty popular thread where someone essentially ragequit due to being talked down to by someone in an all-hands, after having tried to resolve their issues with specific policies via other means. They took a principled stand, which seems exceedingly rare at Google.

The main theme of their post was that engineering had become a second-class profession at a de-facto engineering firm.

If I recall correctly, Steve Jobs had something to say about that very transition…

Edit: By thread I mean internal Email thread at Google.