I have a Bachelors in Engineering (BEng) in Computing from Imperial College, not a PhD, but I work in a group at Google where a significant percentage of my pee

I have a Bachelors in Engineering (BEng) in Computing from Imperial College, not a PhD, but I work in a group at Google where a significant percentage of my peers do, but only know this because from time to time people mention the kind of research they did because either it is relevant to what we are doing, or comes up naturally in discussion. I don't see any difference between what I do, and what others in my group do, we are all in it together, but took different paths to get there. Our group is more research focused (though we are Software Engineers) than many at Google, and this has given me a great opportunity to learn from those with an (even) more academic background. TL;DR - I don't see any differences between PhDs and otherwise at Google, even in 'researchy' teams.