> The campus felt designed to suck more work hours out of you. Yes! That's the point. If you think there are 10x devs out there and that your company is capabl

> The campus felt designed to suck more work hours out of you. Yes! That's the point. If you think there are 10x devs out there and that your company is capable of attracting them, then paying extra to remove friction to get a little bit of extra time out of them is worth more than an ever increasing headcount with regular devs. > If I go play ping pong for an hour, do I now owe that hour to the company later? No. Engineering isn't about hours, it's about results. If playing an hour of ping pong means the next 3 hours will be more productive for the players and they will be more creative it's an investment. I've seen tough bugs get solved by engineers going on a walk when they were absolutely stuck. > My current employer offers a few perks. We have pool tables, video games, etc. But you'll pretty much never find people using them because they're busy working. Seems like mostly a recruiting tool and little more. That's why I'm perfectly fine staying home and not utilizing the cool office space. I didn't use that stuff anyway. A company won't just become Google by buying beanbag chairs and getting a ping pong table. That's cargo culting [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult