The Circle's signature product is a thing called True You, which (from what you can make out from the movie) ties people's real identities to their online presence, including all their information, their emails, their texts, location data — basically everything most of us already give up freely to various internet companies.

Also like Google (and many other Silicon Valley companies), the Circle has a one-stop-shopping campus on which their employees spend most of their time. At Google's campus in Mountain View, California (called the "Googleplex"), employees can eat vegan sushi, get a haircut, join an affinity group with other employees, go bowling, and hear a world leader give a talk, all in the course of a normal day, if they can spare the time away from their desk. The Circle's campus has all these amenities, too, from dog kennels to dorms so employees don't have to worry about commuting after one of the rad parties that are always happening to "connect" the Circlers to one another.

On her first day working in "customer experience" at the Circle — it's a euphemism for being on the customer help desk — Mae Holland (Watson) walks past the Dali Lama and is handed a shiny new tablet with her name on it, and she feels euphorically happy about working at a company where all of her young, attractive co-workers are affable and enthusiastic. That feeling only grows when her friend Annie (Gillan, playing Scottish for once) helps her get her parents on the Circle's health plan so that they can stop worrying about paying for her father's MS treatments.