When Yegge made his infamous platforms rant, he was clearly hoping to convey (internally, to other Googlers) important criticism on Google's mistakes, which is a productive conversation to have. I have seen a lot of tweets in particular from Google employees that can only be described as 'butthurt' regarding this blog post... but if, with any luck, the right Googlers read his post, with a little self-reflection, "slamming" Google might be good for Google. Because like any other company, Google could change, and could improve.

And this is hardly a slam, he still specifies that he believes it is basically the best place to work, and his follow-up post provides a bit more context to the main quote from the previous blog.