It wasn't supposed to end like this: After twelve years at Google, I was unceremoniously escorted off the premises.
My last day came in May 2019, six months after the Google Walkout, during which 20,000 Googlers left their desks in a mass protest unprecedented in the tech industry. I helped to organize it after corporate documents obtained by the New York Times showed that Google paid executive Andy Rubin nearly $90 million in severance after he was accused of sexual misconduct. Little did we know it would be like waving a lit match in front of a powder keg: when people poured out of Google offices in 50 cities around the world a week after the severance news broke, it was clear this wasn't just about Andy Rubin anymore. Something seismic was rumbling beneath the surface of the world's storied "best place to work." During my last six months at Google, I would become intimately familiar with just how closed off the company's famously "open" corporate culture had become—and how far the management would go to prevent its staff from holding the company accountable.
I'd been warned about becoming a visible organizer within one of the world's biggest corporations.
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