Yep, but when they're doing a talk they're playing a role. It's like when you're interviewing, you probably turn on the BS a bit. Most people don't do talks of

Yep, but when they're doing a talk they're playing a role. It's like when you're interviewing, you probably turn on the BS a bit. Most people don't do talks of any kind for their company so that group is already not representative of what it's like to work in company X on a day-to-day basis. That said, some things are true. E.g. Googlers are pretty self-congratulatory although there are plenty of internal cynics as well.