I agree. However, for every person who doesn't want to work there, five others are willing to join the company, especially those who live overseas and are willing to work for pennies.
Exactly. They still are one of THE companies to work for, and throw so much money at people its hard to say no
As long as homes in the bay area are regularly going for $2m and Google is one of the extremely few companies that has an attainable $400k+ TC... I don't see a shortage of people applying in the bay area either.