I used to work as a rater through Lionbridge back in the EWOQ days and I honestly have nothing bad to say about it. The pay was quite good and it was all remote work where I set my own hours. I never had a problem with not being a "real Googler". I always saw it as working for Lionbridge, not Google.

Granted, I was in the privileged position of only having it as a side income while studying so I never expected any job security to begin with. In that context it was great though.