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That picture of the Facebook offices in the article looks terrible. If anyone here works there is that the new office? Also is that how it's supposed to look or

That picture of the Facebook offices in the article looks terrible. If anyone here works there is that the new office? Also is that how it's supposed to look or is it unfinished?

calt 9y ago
“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30/what-these-photos-of-facebooks-new-headquarters-say-about-the-future-of-work https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30...
- throw-away-8 9y ago
  They should apply the same principle to their cafes. "Our food preparation is left incomplete as a symbol..."
- kwillets 9y ago
  So do the engineers work on finishing the building too?
ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago
I received a message from someone claiming to work at FB who says it is indeed the new building (20) and it is supposed to look like that, and that another one exactly like it is being built next door. Apparently the numbers on the beams can tell you whereabouts it was taken. He's not a fan either! The interior designers must have been paid well I'm guessing - this is successful company, perhaps the rest of us have poor taste and we will eventually grow to be dazzled by it.
falcolas 9y ago
This bothered me too. Open offices are bad enough; unfinished spaces are unforgivable. There's virtually nothing to dampen noise - you'd literally be trying to work in an echo chamber. And that doesn't even include the visual noise of exposed wiring, loose insulation, and exposed beams. Even the environmental controls are working harder than they have to - all of that empty space over everyone's heads has to be heated/cooled, and a lot of insulation potential from a simple drop ceiling is lost. In other words, worker productivity aside, Facebook is still losing a lot of money on that building. The last time I worked in a space like that was for Atari as a temp QA tester. It was as bad as advertised, though even Atari had cubicle walls and company-provided headphones for their testers.

That picture of the Facebook offices in the article looks terrible. If anyone here works there is that the new office? Also is that how it's supposed to look or is it unfinished?

calt 9y ago

“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30/what-these-photos-of-facebooks-new-headquarters-say-about-the-future-of-work https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30...

throw-away-8 9y ago
They should apply the same principle to their cafes. "Our food preparation is left incomplete as a symbol..."
kwillets 9y ago
So do the engineers work on finishing the building too?

ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago

I received a message from someone claiming to work at FB who says it is indeed the new building (20) and it is supposed to look like that, and that another one exactly like it is being built next door. Apparently the numbers on the beams can tell you whereabouts it was taken. He's not a fan either! The interior designers must have been paid well I'm guessing - this is successful company, perhaps the rest of us have poor taste and we will eventually grow to be dazzled by it.

falcolas 9y ago

This bothered me too. Open offices are bad enough; unfinished spaces are unforgivable. There's virtually nothing to dampen noise - you'd literally be trying to work in an echo chamber. And that doesn't even include the visual noise of exposed wiring, loose insulation, and exposed beams. Even the environmental controls are working harder than they have to - all of that empty space over everyone's heads has to be heated/cooled, and a lot of insulation potential from a simple drop ceiling is lost. In other words, worker productivity aside, Facebook is still losing a lot of money on that building. The last time I worked in a space like that was for Atari as a temp QA tester. It was as bad as advertised, though even Atari had cubicle walls and company-provided headphones for their testers.