Over at Reddit , people who work at Google are invited to tell what it's really like there. Knowing that some replies posted in such threads may be fake, here are three comments, from the negative to the positive. CinoBoo writes: I've been there for about 5 years. You can read about the good parts anywhere, so I'll try to offer a counterpoint based on having worked at other software companies. A common problem is that it's easy to become spoiled by all the perks.