Nice article.
It is the subject which not many wants to talk about, may be for the fear of disturbing big players.
The most interesting reaction I find is of the people who are asked to leave over an email.
But these people are basking anunder the brand of ex-googlers
One thing these ex-googlers should try to understand that it better to have the tag as "currently employed" then ex-googlers.
End of the day it is your employment status that matters, so stop differentiating yourself as FAANG/MAANG etc. company employee.
We are just employees, who could be kicked out anytime from any company.