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As an Xoogler, I think this is great news. By the time I left a year ago, there were far too many far-flung buildings in Sunnyvale, with new ones opening all t
by drewg123 10y ago
As an Xoogler, I think this is great news. By the time I left a year ago, there were far too many far-flung buildings in Sunnyvale, with new ones opening all the time (and my group was -- and still is -- slated to move into exile in Sunnyvale).
These were the worst of both worlds -- you still had to deal with a Bay Area cost of living and commute, but you were too far to easily collaborate with other groups, or take advantage of events & resources on the main GooglePlex (TGIF at Charlies, author talks, various events, picking up dogfood hardware, etc.) Not to mention fragmented bus routes.
- justinlardinois 10y ago> you still had to deal with a Bay Area cost of living and commute Isn't that true both before and after this? Nowhere anywhere remotely near Mountain View or Sunnyvale has a reasonable cost of living.
- Naritai 10y agoyeah but at least you get the benefits listed.
- Someone1234 10y agoThey acknowledge that. That was their point, that in both scenarios you get that downside but then pointed out a series of upsides of being on the actual Google Campus. Did you stop reading halfway through the sentence?
- mod 10y agoThat's their point. You just sort-of repeated it.
- andrewfromx 10y agoha u might as well have been in Google LA and had the perk of working on venice beach.
- rb2k_ 10y agoSame goes the other way round. There were some LinkedIn buildings in SV, but the connection to the MV headquarters wasn't really there.