Google? Evil?

Well, google might not be evil, but apparently they have been pissing of web developers enough to get them to leave. That is, at least according to this article on CNN: Why Google Web Designers Keep Quitting In A Huff.

I found this section of the article particularly interesting:

- Google doesn't really need web designers. Google search, which drives 99% of the company's revenue, is a design masterpiece because it's hardly designed at all. Competitors like to slag Google for relying on "10 blue links" but it works and Google won't need designers to change it anytime soon.

- Google is a sales-driven company that likes to call itself an engineering-driven company. So even if Google plans to change a product, it won't go to the Web designers first.

I think they are right. The 1% of google that makes 99% of the profits is done. The only thing they need now is to keep sales up. This kind of squashes my desire to work at google one day. Of course, I wanted to work on the back end anyway...