Yes. Remember, there's not really "the Google infrastructure" as some separate component. With a few exceptions, it's all One Big Repository (https://cacm.acm

Yes. Remember, there's not really "the Google infrastructure" as some separate component. With a few exceptions, it's all One Big Repository (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor... ). Google is a very large engineering organization, and (my opinion here, but one shared by others) recognizes that there's a lot of diversity in what engineers like for their workflow. There's obviously a set of standards for what you can choose from as far as laptops (since the company is buying them), but it's pretty broad. Here's a Quora answer that goes into more detail: https://www.quora.com/What-computer-or-laptop-do-software-engineers-or-programmers-at-Microsoft-Google-Facebook-Amazon-and-or-other-big-tech-companies-use https://www.quora.com/What-computer-or-laptop-do-software-en... You can read more about Google's security model in a USENIX ;login article from last year: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44860.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... (source: The above cited sources, plus I'm part-time at Google.)