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I used to do that at my old company! And it was definitely an old company!
Hewlett-Packard?
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Can't find the link. But I'm pretty sure I saw a survey somewhere that showed the opposite finding: people prefer a pay raise to perks.
I imagine people might say they prefer salary over the equivalent in perks, but that doesn't mean they actually do. Getting paid 50% of market rate, but your boss flies the whole company to Europe for a week? Awesome company!
I also found that the longer I worked there, the less the food perks mattered. Right out of college they were unbelievable, but after a few years I wanted to go home and eat dinner with my friends, without feeling like I was wasting the perk benefit.
My favorite shark-jump moment was when someone in HR sent out a blast email announcing a new HR initiative for a "wear pajamas to work day" highlighting Google culture. When HR has to manufacture culture and call it a perk, things are on their way downhill...
They had better not get rid of that 20% of your time on a pet project perk. That is an inherent strategic advantage.
A lot of Googlers report 20% time is a bit of myth, because many engineers end up struggling more than 100% time to deliver their principle project.
Maybe perks don't really scale so well. It's surprising that he said the pay is very good, I was the impression people took paycuts for the google priviledge.
Looks pretty good to me.
Me, I wake up on Monday morning and think 'cool, there's work to do!' - and most of my coworkers feel the same way.
For me, that's the measure of a good job.
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Well, I'm still getting free food up here in Google Kirkland, and it's great. The article seemed pretty odd to me, too.
Yes so what perks are being cut exactly? The article is vague about that.
I'm surprised people thought the perks would last. Every company goes through that phase, where employees are showered with perks (of bizarre variety - everything from free laundry to day care for kids to free pop soda). The company either grows to the point where many of the perks are no longer sustainable (employees grow older, have kids -> company spends a LOT more on day care etc.), and/or hits an economic recess…
I disagree. I think the perks would have continued if it wasn't for the down encon.