IMO, this is unusually harsh and unwarranted. Clearly the media likes being extreme... - Bindu Reddy
I don't know the rationales behind the actions, but a friend of mine at Google was brought to tears battling these changes before it ever made it to Valleywag or the NYT. There are Google parents who are very, very upset about this, no matter how badly the NYT article was written. - Kevin Fox
And for good reason, mostly self "inflicted", Google will always be held to a higher standard, - Deepak
IMHO, this is a case of a whole lot of wrongs. I'm not proud of the way this situation has been handled by EMG, I'm upset by the fact that some info was leaked from an internal meeting (TGIF) on Valleywag, and I've lost a bit more respect for the NY Times after reading that lopsidedly hysterical editorial. In the end, everybody's losing here, nothing to be happy about :-(. - Adam Lasnik
These stories about google as a company really bore me. - minus3
"... that he was tired of “Googlers” who felt entitled to perks like “bottled water and M&Ms,” according to several people in the meeting ..." So if the NYT has several sources on this as they say, and a Google spokesman denies this, then someone's lying (either Google, or the reporter, or the people in the meeting). To better judge how well this piece was written it seems important to know who lied here. - Philipp Lenssen
What we're seeing in the article is a paraphrased comment and exactly five quoted words. You could dispute whether he uttered the phrase "bottled water and M&Ms", or whether he said something that meant something like what the reporter is implying. If you want to argue about what a comment in a meeting means and whether that meaning is accurately reflected in a piece like this one, well, you can have quite an argument even if nobody is actually lying. - ⓞnor
Based on the obvious bias of the article, and all the times that I saw this kind of thing from the inside of Google, I'm inclined to believe that the quotes are false or out of context. - Paul Buchheit
I don't use Google day care, but I've heard about all the screw-ups secondhand at the lunch table. I found the article to be quite representative of what I have heard expressed by fellow Googlers. - Jon McAlister
