Everyone’s Mad at Google and Sundar Pichai Has to Fix It

The CEO is increasingly boxed in by regulators, tech critics on both the right and the left, and even his own employees.

The sparsely furnished offices of Sundar Pichai stretch across the second floor of the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. On one side of the room, a sofa and chairs surround a coffee table bearing a few figurines, including a wooden dinosaur, the unofficial mascot of the Chrome browser. Dominating the other side is a massive treadmill desk, though Pichai rarely uses it. “I find it difficult to walk and type emails at the same time,” he says. “I’m not good at multitasking.”