I have friends at Google at remote offices who are experiencing increasing pressure to move to Silicon Valley (which the cost of living rules out) as they consolidate distributed teams. Add in Google's disdain for telecommuting that I experienced myself during my stint there and their rope cutting here does not surprise me.
Sure, Google's culture favors the young. But their futurist agenda is being driven by Ray Kurzweil and Geoffrey Hinton, both old fogies by Silicon Valley standards.
I experienced the same disdain for telecommuting there. I accepted a contracting job on a specific pilot project, always hoping to eventually being able to work perhaps 1/2 time from my home in Arizona. That didn't work out and I left. Anyway, I very much appreciated the experience but I didn't want to live long term in Silicon Valley.
Sure, Google's culture favors the young. But their futurist agenda is being driven by Ray Kurzweil and Geoffrey Hinton, both old fogies by Silicon Valley standards.