Startup Culture is Not About Ping-Pong Tables

Post by innguest » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

MrQuincle wrote: post #13

innguest wrote: post #4

Paraphrase of the "Challenge" paragraph: "We only solve very very hard problems, we turn away the easy problems, and we all agree that's the way to go" Does anyone really think that way or fall for that? This is incredibly immature. Why would you turn away easy jobs? You're not researchers, you're a business. I never think of whether the problems I'm solving are "easy" or "hard". They just need to be fixed. It seems…

I thought it was because I am Dutch, but the blog post is indeed not the way you should talk to Dutch people... :-D All the best to them anyway.

MrQuincle, it's not because you're Dutch - it's because we're both not pretentious. :)

Post by innguest » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 3:09 AM UTC

wooster wrote: post #17

jacquesm wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We value a fun work environemnt If a ping-pong table is on your stuff-to-buy list for the first 3 years or so you've either hit one out of the park or you're as good as dead.

Ping pong tables cost about ~$150. That seems pretty cheap for stress relief and entertainment. I'd be careful not to read too much data into tiny signals like whether a company has a ping pong table.

As a ping pong hobbyist and an employee at a company that does have a ping pong table, I can assure you a $150 ping pong table is not good enough for anyone that actually plays ping pong because they think it's fun and they'd like to get better at it over time. It might be good enough for when you have nothing to do and you're just killing time. If you care about the game, then a ping pong table goes for ~$1500.

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