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The thing with the cafeteria is that it reflects company culture. If you in the office sit at a desk in the Google search engine area or youtube or Waymo is har
by johannes1234321 6y ago
The thing with the cafeteria is that it reflects company culture. If you in the office sit at a desk in the Google search engine area or youtube or Waymo is hardly noticable. People have settled in an if the neighboring teams go home at "normal" times, the "startup" team will go home at those times. Also you have a hard time to keep the small team culture when directly embedded. And then corporates encourage changing jobs internal over leaving and hiring somebody else, which means that there are ties on all levels. Pulling out and having your own startup culture is hard. The cafeteria symbolizes that, as it is a social place and culture to large parts is a social thing.
- tony0x02 6y agoI forgot where I read it but I think statistics show that innovation at BigCo has only succeeded when the team is located at a separate location.
- watwut 6y agoSo like, the whole startup thing boils down to being at work late and working overtime, despite all the studies on crunch showing it is inefficient and less productive?
- johannes1234321 6y agoI think that summary is too narrow (i.e. the whole team, maybe even as "us vs. them" thing etc. are part of culture) but yes, for many of those startup guys "do 'hard' work, push things" seems to be an important piece and that's a reason for me to keep my distance.