Google is full of horror stories about bureaucracies and abusive/ignorant/incompetent managers? It's true that there are a few disgruntled ex-Googlers that may

Google is full of horror stories about bureaucracies and abusive/ignorant/incompetent managers? It's true that there are a few disgruntled ex-Googlers that may give you this impression. But I don't believe you'll find many current Google employes who will agree with that.