Google Pushed 'Don't Be Evil' to Bottom in 2018 After 2011 CEO Shift

1 articles · Updated · XDA Developers · Aug 12

May 2018 marked the point when Google moved “Don’t be evil” from the top of its code of conduct to the bottom, according to former employee Claire Stapleton.
Stapleton, who worked at Google from 2007 to 2019, links that downgrade to Larry Page’s 2011 return as CEO, saying the leadership change redirected the company toward grand tech ambitions.
That shift, she argues, produced more corporate complexity and bloat rather than the lean innovation Page had championed, turning the early mantra into a footnote.
Products such as Google Glass and Google+ became examples of the new culture’s Apple-style branding push, which Stapleton says drifted from Google’s original idealism.