Does Exodus of Google Heads Indicate Internal Problems at Google?

[turbocharged]

Lately there have been a number of high level employees at Google who have left for other positions. I'm curious as to why so many are leaving Google and if it is an indication of internal problems within their company.

7/31/2014 Jane Penner (Head of Investor Relations) Leaves for Alibaba Group
[recode.net...]

7/22/2014 Chris LaRosa (Head of YouTube) reportedly "quits" to join a startup.
[blogs.wsj.com...]

7/17/2014 Nikesh Arora (Chief Business Officer) Leaving for Softbank
[plus.google.com...]

7/12/2014 Babak Parviz (Google Glass Engineer and Former X Labds Directory) Leaving for Amazon
[plus.google.com...]

7/2/2014 Dan Makoski (Head of Design) Leaves for Capital One
[recode.net...]

4/24/2014 Vic Gundotra (Google Plus Head) Leaves to ?
[plus.google.com...]

Also going on an extended leave is:

7/3/2014 Matt Cutts (Head of Webspam Team)
[searchengineland.com...]

The above departures (I'm sure there are some I overlooked) appear to be more than ordinary churn. As the top tech company, I would assume Google's ability to retain talent would be easy, yet so many are leaving. What's your thoughts on this?

[GreyBeard123]

More money (?)

[aristotle]

If you've ever worked for a big U.S. corporation, and you're a competent person who doesn't like being surrounded by stupidity and incompetence, then you already know why people would want to leave.

[superclown2]

When I used to work for a living, before the Intenet came along and Google etc gave me a life of ease, I came across many highly creative people who would only last a few years in top positions at any given company. They would then either (a) run out of new ideas or (b) come up against obstacles that would prevent them putting their ideas into practice. Their performance would start to suffer and they would become dissatisfied. They would then either be headhunted or would seek fresh challenges that could re-stimulate them.

Creative people are like that.

[jmccormac]

Losing a few high profile primadonnas is not really the issue. When they start losing people who are critical to operations and marketing, then they have problems. When those people start moving, the institutional memory starts developing holes and businesses often end up having to try reinventing the wheel because nobody knew exactly what those people knew.

Regards...jmcc