Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes

The deluge of notifications was meant as a protest to what they saw as Walkers insistence on controlling the minutiae of their professional lives.

About 20,000 employees walked out last fall over the companys generous treatment of executives accused of sexual harassment, and a handful quit over Googles work on products for the U.S.

The extent of Googles employee rebellion is hard to measurethe company has tried to portray it as the work of a handful of malcontents from the companys junior ranks.

The fight also illustrates the lack oftrust between Googles leadership and some of its employees, according to interviews with over a dozen current and former employees, as well as internal messages shared with Bloomberg News on the condition it not publish the names of employees who participated.

His elevation marks the end of the active involvement of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who established Googles distinctive culture when they founded the company as Stanford graduate students.

Some Google managers began signaling that they're losing patience with internal activism even before the firings, according to one person who worked with them.Executives have not met with dissenting staff leadership in many weeks, according to one of the employees.

While Walker wrote in the Daily Insider that organizations haveto change as they grow, he simultaneously argued that the policies he described had always existed. This particularly offended several long-time Googlers, who said on internal message boards that Walkerscomments didnt square with their own memories.

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