Comment by ur-whale

Two points to consider:

    a) A vast majority of Google FTE are actually shareholders via equity grants, so there's that. Not a coop, but a taste of it.

    b) The way you make more money at Google is by getting promoted. And unfortunately, the way you get promoted at Google is by looking like you are actively innovating, but without any measured correlation to the actual impact on the bottom line of the company. The result is typically the kind of shite everyone is complaining about in this thread.