Having worked at Google, (and numerous other places), the environment varies a great deal from team to team, but overall they treat their people extremely well.

Having worked at Google, (and numerous other places), the environment varies a great deal from team to team, but overall they treat their people extremely well. At the other end of the spectrum, in my experience, are non-software companies (biotech, for example) who need software engineers, but think of them as "IT".