As much as I love your response, in my experience, the craziest perks correlate strongly with candy-a$$ed brogrammer frat houses that do little more than string

As much as I love your response, in my experience, the craziest perks correlate strongly with candy-a$$ed brogrammer frat houses that do little more than string together rickety MVPs of open-sourced code and very weakly with attempts to attract real engineering talent. The latter is best achieved with $400K+ annual compensation or 2% or higher post-SLP equity wherein they can afford to purchase their own perks and the expected return on a sensible startup gamble is higher than working for $400K+. For I find the perks exist less to attract engineering talent and more to achieve that perfect blend of easy party money and college party life that serves as a nearly 100% efficient system of wealth redistribution from the top 0.01% to the top 10%. That said, I think the disappearance of facebook and twitter from the Internet would be approximately as inconvenient as a philosopher's strike. "Script kiddies new reality: amateur hour is over."