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> 'smart enough to work at google' and 'smart enough to realize their corpo-we're one big family-speak is total BS

I have noticed that smartness can be highly compartmentalized.

For many Googlers, this is their one-and-only company so they actually have no frame of reference, including no frame of reference to notice the company culture was shifting over the past decade-ish.

There’s a difference between intellectually understanding it, versus actually seeing yourself tossed aside and cast out, while knowing that all the other cogs are already back in motion and pretty much fully adjusted to your absence.

"Smart" and "naive" are not antonyms. Indeed, it is practically a stereotype that the two often go together.