As someone who worked there 4 months last year, this is pretty accurate. I had a more negative experience because I got consigned to an obvious tarbaby team that was bleeding an engineer a month, but this seems more like the norm...
And yes, Google makes claim to everything you write while you're there unless they explicitly agree otherwise. They have set up a committee for making those decisions. This is probably a good thing IMO.
And yes, Google makes claim to everything you write while you're there unless they explicitly agree otherwise. They have set up a committee for making those decisions. This is probably a good thing IMO.