We did contact work for Google around 10 years ago. I visited Mountain View, San Francisco, and YouTube. I've worked in startups and video games, and I was genu

We did contact work for Google around 10 years ago. I visited Mountain View, San Francisco, and YouTube. I've worked in startups and video games, and I was genuinely shocked to find that Google felt more like Hewlett-Packard than any of those. There was a room in the SF office two stories high with an adult playground slide between floors and a free photo booth nearby. No one was there. Super "abandoned amusement park" vibes. Still have the photos, though, somewhere around here. Never did work there as a W2, and certainly never will. No judgment against those who do; to each their own, right?