There is no "working for Google". There is "working at Google on Something, with People". There's a great deal of variety within Something, and variety within P

There is no "working for Google". There is "working at Google on Something, with People". There's a great deal of variety within Something, and variety within People. There's cutting edge research, there's the boring slog of what must be done, and there's everything in between. There's 20% time, where you can define your own Something. There's very hard work being done on a massive scale to ensure user and customer security and privacy are pervasive through everything. Plenty of xooglers will tell you exactly what they thought about working at Google. You will hear all types of opinions when you do. Cachet simply isn't a factor for most. Apply Occam's razor to the stories that xooglers tell. Are they all lying and "covering up"? Or is the diversity of opinions you read about real, and reflective of the experiences of that writer? I'd go with with real.