Quick report on the office: it is nicely located in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Google bought an entire city block, which still has existing tenants. The decors and work put into those buildings are quite nice, they beat MTV in some ways.

Here are a few chosen pictures:

They definitely won on the meeting room front. I love the Harry Potter rooms:

They also have really cool legos:

One of the cafes had an ice cream truck that had been lifted up there:

SREs have a tough job, and it leads to drinking :)

and I'll finish with their nice local computer history museum:

All in all, it was quite nice, I wouldn't mind working there.