Why I’m Leaving Google After 100 Months
3 min readJan 29, 2022
Eight years of anything is an incredibly long time, but it still feels like it wasn’t enough.
It wasn’t the free food, massages, or free transportation (all of which were incredibly generous, but the pandemic made me realize were superfluous.)
It was the impactful, challenging work, and, of course, the people that built up a dynamic, inclusive culture. Google will definitely go down in history books as pioneering the right kind of place to work and grow. Google truly was the happiest place on earth (to work.)