The Information has just posted a massive info dump (subscription required) on Alphabet's Nest, painting a picture of a "stalled" company with sales that haven't lived up to expectations and a seemingly rough internal culture. The report says there has been an "exodus" of employees, with more than half of the 100 employees from the Nest-acquired Dropcam walking away from the company. Dropcam co-founder Greg Duffy was part of that exodus, reportedly calling Nest CEO Tony Fadell a “tyrant bureaucrat” on his way out.

Fadell spoke to The Information as part of the report, saying that “A lot of the [Dropcam] employees were not as good as we hoped.” One of the most interesting things Fadell mentioned is that Alphabet is entering a "fiscal discipline era" and asking its subsidiaries for business plans for the year. This comes on the heels of an earlier report that said Alphabet was looking to dump robotics company Boston Dynamics after it supposedly lacked a real product and didn't want to work with the rest of Alphabet.

Drama aside, the report also contains a list of upcoming Google and Nest products. The most interesting is a "Google Voice Recognition device" that "competes with Amazon Echo." The Echo is basically a Wi-Fi speaker with voice recognition technology—think "Siri in a box." Google has all of the voice tech nailed down from its efforts on Android and Google.com, so it's easy to imagine building the existing Google app capabilities into a standalone device. Nest originally wanted a hand in the project but was denied by Google. As for the timing of such a device, the report says it's "unclear when Google will release the device and there’s still a chance it won't be released at all." Previously, the well-sourced Artem Russakovskii of Android Police briefly mentioned an Amazon Echo competitor in development at Google, codenamed "Chirp."

The report has a big rundown of an "Internet-connected security system" from Nest, consisting of several parts. The first is a wireless hub codenamed "Flintstone." The device uses Nest's "Thread" low-power communication standard and has reportedly been in development for three years. The Information says Alphabet has put pressure on Nest to release the hub this fall, but Flintstone "has been killed or changed so many times that one former employee jokingly called it 'Tombstone.'"

Flintstone (if it ever sees release) would connect to a series of windows and door sensors called "Pinna." Pinna sensors would connect to the hub using the Thread communication standard. The report doesn't mention the form factor of the sensor, but usually these sensors are a pair of magnets that, for instance, go on the door and the door frame. When the door opens, they are separated, and that's detected as the door opening.

Nest is also supposedly working on a bluetooth tag called "Keshi." This would work as a presence sensor for the Flintstone security system, alerting it to the users' comings and goings. In the past, we've also heard of a "Nest Audio" project that would probably compete with a Sonos-style smart speaker.

While Google's Echo competitor seems like a relatively straightforward product, there's no telling if Nest's numerous products actually see the light of day. The company currently has three products, the Nest Learning Thermostat, Nest Protect, and the Nest Cam. Google bought Nest in early 2014 with the hope that Google's (now Alphabet's) cash and resources could super-charge Nest. We've yet to see the Alphabet's Nest hit its stride, though. Other than purchasing Dropcam and rebranding it into the Nest Cam, the company has yet to develop a new product line.