Google

At least for the folks near the bottom of the org chart, old Google culture, e.g., don't be evil, respect the user, are alive and well.

It feels like a bunch of nerds having fun working on interesting problems, and you just happen to make the company a bunch of money on the side.

In terms of compensation and benefits, I get the sense that Google is near the top end.

The upper management is increasingly showing that they are there for one thing and one thing only: maximize short-term shareholder value.

They don't see beyond the next quarterly earnings report, and it shows in the decisions they make.

For the workers, this means never-ending layoffs, constant reorgs, and quotas on promotions, and stack-ranking during annual ratings.

For users, it means higher-ups will make questionable decisions we know are bad for users, but make us more money in the short term.

This leadership style might make sense if you only care about the next earnings call, but in the long term, this management style will hurt the company, its users, and its workers.