"The only Chef job with stock options!"
wow who was that chef?
Jobs at Google (1999)
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#22> 8. Free snacks and drinks This seems like a good reason not to work somewhere.
I'd argue it's pretty standard, I mean you don't have to use it.
I find lunch at work already a pretty big perk, where it's not offered it's an easy E5-7 per day (I can't be arsed to make it at home), that adds up over a year.
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#23> 8. Free snacks and drinks This seems like a good reason not to work somewhere.
> This seems like a good reason not to work somewhere. I'm curious; why do you feel that way?
I worked somewhere with free coke and kit kats.
Turns out, I've got willpower when in the supermarket, but not when there's a fridge in the office. I could just about limit myself to 1 of each a day, but even that was too much.
Re: Jobs at Google (1999)
#24> This means we base employment decisions exclusively on our current business needs and the given merit of a candidate. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization, and are not influenced by race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, handicap, religion, or any other factor irrelevant to doing a great job. Not anymore eh?
What do you mean?
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#25Back when Google was really cool! Who got hired into some of these positions?
Which is funny, because actually, their business model was never "really cool", just "evil" ;)
Google were not "evil" for a long time after this. They really were a force for good in the world for a long time. I have never admired a large company so much as I did the Google of the early 2000s. Youthful, gifted, moral, crazily ambitious, constantly doing things I thought impossible…
The "evil" only really crept in once they started to take over all of the world's advertising.
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#26"The only Chef job with stock options!" wow who was that chef?
Charlie Ayers I believe.
Ended up with $26 million in stock
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#27"The only Chef job with stock options!" wow who was that chef?
That would be Charlie Ayers.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is funny, because actually, their business model was never "really cool", just "evil" ;)
Google were not "evil" for a long time after this. They really were a force for good in the world for a long time. I have never admired a large company so much as I did the Google of the early 2000s. Youthful, gifted, moral, crazily ambitious, constantly doing things I thought impossible… The "evil" only really crept in once they started to take over all of the world's advertising.
So they were “not evil” as long as they were being funded by investors and didn’t have a self sustaining business plan...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This seems like a good reason not to work somewhere. I'm curious; why do you feel that way?
A workplace that offers free snacks, drinks, ping-pong tables and relaxation pods is set up to maximize your time spent in the office and encourages a culture that excludes people who value their time off work, for example because they have a family.
The commute times are way worse than the free lunches when it comes to family time.
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#30> This means we base employment decisions exclusively on our current business needs and the given merit of a candidate. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization, and are not influenced by race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, handicap, religion, or any other factor irrelevant to doing a great job. Not anymore eh?
What about political orientation :).