It consistently tops the chats of "best places to work". Combine that with the fact that there's literally a movie about how great it is to work there and I'd say that's pretty common sense.
You think that Google being a great place to work meets this definition, despite the fact that the vast majority of people have no idea what it's like to work there.?
> It consistently tops the chats of "best places to work".
Which are answered by who? I've never even seen one of those surveys and I've worked in the industry for 13 years.
SV types tend to think the world is all like SV (which seems to be a focusing of the more general American view point)
> Combine that with the fact that there's literally a movie about how great it is to work there
There's a biographical movie about the life of Steve Jobs that has actual evidence about factual events, and they fucked it up massively. Why would you assume any movie is a true representation of something, especially a fucking comedy??
With a job you love, one is happy with just subsistence level compensation. There are very few jobs like that IMO, mainly either the ones which involve a large creative and independent component (some artists, scientists, maybe entrepreneurs) or working for the greater good.