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Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture Everywhere

• mav3rick 7y ago
  Okay so it's SVs fault that other companies are following it.
  • JohnFen 7y ago
    It's SV's fault for modelling terrible practices. It's also the other companies fault for adopting them.
    • mav3rick 7y ago
      Google Apple Facebook are all doing fine.
      • JohnFen 7y ago
        Umm, yes? This reply confuses me -- why is this point relevant?
        • mav3rick 7y ago
          If the practices were really terrible these companies won't be doing this well. There must be a small degree of correlation between their perks and their output.
• rpiguy 7y ago
  I have no problem with table tennis, bean bags, and open offices. The worst export of Silicon Valley by far is the "work cult" where you have to pretend to love your company and every company is out to change the way we X, etc. If a company has a good mission and good people, employees will feel that way naturally. If you try to engrain it, it feels like a mandatory pep rally at high school. Some kids are into it, but most don't really care that much or get turned off by it. * My favorite example of Silicon Valley aping is a company I shall not name here in New Jersey that built a giant three level open office with a large tube slide between the top and bottom floors. AFTER it was built it dawned on the company what a huge legal liability the slide was. People were promptly told to stop bringing their kids in to use the slide and you needed to sign a waiver. So now the slide is just there to "look fun."