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I got to visit the Facebook headquarters this week for a shoot.
It was cool to see, but after working in a non-facebooky place for so long, it would be really hard for me to transition to a place like that.
A story the tour guide shared: "Here at Facebook we encourage people to not ask for help from their managers. Just get it done. So someone ordered a gigantic arcade game from Japan and had it shipped here, so we built an arcade for the employees to use."- Did you say shoot up Facebook?utopian
- < I've heard they do that. No structured teams either. Groups assemble themselves to work on projects.kona
- Yeah. Free food everywhere, like restaurants and shit. Bike repair for free - pay for parts only. On site dentist - free teeth cleaning. JUST DON'T LEAVE!stoplying
- Does that type of system work for work?yurimon
- And they don't take computers to meetings. I remember our first meeting with FB. I walk in with a moleskin and micron pen. The leadershipkona
- team I was with all walk in and fire up their PCs and laptops, checking phones, not paying attention, just before we began one of the FB guyskona
- *coughs* and motions to close the laptops. On one side of the table, everyone was ready to go, on the other, a bunch of imbeciles looking likekona
- they're trying to fuck a football.kona
- do you think its productive? or just some kind of playground. just curious if there is logic to the culture. prob the server rooms is where the works is done.yurimon
- The group I worked with knew what they were doing. I wonder how everyone stays on the same page with no structure but I'm sure they have a systemkona