Google Exodus Beginning?

Google is losing some highly skilled employees lately, in what they must hope is not the start of a very dangerous trend.
Kevin Fox, former Senior User Experience Design Lead on projects like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader (the newer, successful version), Blogger, Google Groups, Page Creator, and founder of the Search and apps User Experience review committee, has left the company for a startup. Google has clearly lost an important, if not the most important, employee involved with the look and feel of Google products. Losing a guy like Kevin is by far the opposite of a good thing.
In announcing his departure, Kevin points to the good things about Google, that it was the first place he felt like he was part of the company, not just working for it. Still, he says he feels a need for “greater fulfillment” that he apparently can’t get at Google, […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg