While transparency is admirable, I don’t find the “why I left Google” blog posts to be particularly interesting content to be posted to HN.

They happen relatively frequently and there are a number of things about them that feel distasteful:

- The authors are in the literal 1%, so for the 99% of us who are doing far worse it feels a bit like a tiny violin exercise.

“Sorry you worked for an unethical company, my company is unethical, too, and I can’t quit over morals or else my family won’t eat.

- Being in the 1% affords many of these individuals more options in life to work for ethical employees or pursue noble causes, and articles like this one makes you question why they just woke up to the reality they were benefitting from for so long. It seems like everyone on the outside has known about those moral quandaries for a while.

- The people who quit Google are one of 100,000 employees, which dilutes the value of hearing an individual story from someone who is leaving the company.