{"id":1017861,"date":"2026-06-30T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017861"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:46:40","slug":"google-techie-calls-out-viral-day-in-the-life-videos-says-perks-are-real-but-so-is-the-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/google-techie-calls-out-viral-day-in-the-life-videos-says-perks-are-real-but-so-is-the-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Google techie calls out viral &#8216;day in the life&#8217; videos, says &#8216;Perks are real, but so is the workload&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is full of &#8220;day in the life&#8221; videos from employees working at major tech companies, often highlighting colourful office spaces, PlayStation rooms, gyms and lavish perks. However, a Google employee has now challenged the picture these viral reels paint, saying that they rarely show the demanding work that happens behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, Shalini, a Software Development Engineer at Google, shared her observations after recently visiting some of the most talked-about amenities inside a Google office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is full of &#8220;day in the life&#8221; videos from employees working at major tech companies, often highlighting colourful office spaces, PlayStation rooms, gyms and lavish perks. However, a Google employee has now challenged the picture these viral reels paint, saying that they rarely show the demanding work that happens behind the scenes. Taking to X, Shalini, a Software Development Engineer at Google, shared her observations after recently visiting some of the most talked-about amenities inside a Google office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017862,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017861\/revisions\/1017862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}