Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
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Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#2Startup or cult?
Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#3Beautiful residence, but it's still striking me as an overbearing set up. I suppose people are choosing to be there. He says they're getting 3x more work done, but i'd love to know why, in terms of work hours etc.
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#4Startup or cult?
Reported to HR for not loving and worshipping Dear Company and devoting every single moment of your existence and every fiber of your being to increasing Its Holy Profits and Stock Value! :>
Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#5Startup or cult?
Both.
Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#6Startup or cult?
That's really the first thing that comes to mind, isn't it?
I mean, I feel like it could go either way: eccentric jazz musician Sun Ra's Arkestra lived (and still mostly live) communally in a Philadelphia row house, and they haven't gone insane. On the other hand, the demands of a business are different from those of a musical group.
It seems like, for young tech people, the pendulum is swinging in the direction of communal living. Co-working spaces, specialized housing for groups of tech-entrepreneur-types[1], and more holistic workplaces (Google providing day-care, lots of startups bringing a chef on board to do meals in-house) seem to be in vogue right now. This looks like a particularly extreme extension of that trend (especially since they're leaving the city, a fundamental fixture in the SV startup culture), but I guess we'll see how it works out.
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tech-entrepreneurs-rev...
Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#7So... Not for anyone with a significant other. Or a family. Or an aversion to spending all day and night with your co-workers.
Re: Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate
#8Seems an awful lot like a post-college fraternity...
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#9This is seriously f#cked up.
I can understand 3-4 people who are equals between themselves pulling this off, but with 24 people there's no way everyone likes the arrangement, so having everyone to be in it 24/7 is wrong.
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#10Kool-Aid on the house around the clock. But does it take a tangy flavor when the funding runs out?