I've been through all sorts of PAs (including ads in my first two years). And yes, I only really saw Go in my last year here, working in Core. I transferred from Nest/Hardware because WFH was too difficult for that kind of work (hardware devices), and I wanted to get back into Google3 so I could be more productive. And it so happened the codebase I landed in was Go. I mean, it's been mostly tolerable, but it's also just... not good honestly.

And yes, I do think generally Go is used more outside Google than it is inside. It's not a language made for Google -- despite what Pike is saying -- it's a language made by some people who happen to work at Google to scratch an itch they've had since they worked at Bell Labs.