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Altho the massage therapists were hardly used by alot of people and maybe that's due to them being booked out or difficult to obtain bookings. I still think Goo

Altho the massage therapists were hardly used by alot of people and maybe that's due to them being booked out or difficult to obtain bookings. I still think Google/Facebook/Twitter are just giant daycare centers for adult babies. This is a generalisation but it's what it seems like when you have these people posting 'day in the life of twitter' 'day in the life as a google yelp elitist', etc. Where it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working. We hear about these US jobs with perks, 200k salaries, shares, benefits bumping packages to like 500k etc, while outside of the US (atleast for me) we work hard for our salaries which pale in comparison.

bawolff 4y ago
> I still think Google/Facebook/Twitter are just giant daycare centers for adult babies Its just a way to pay people in things that aren't money. After a certain point more $$$ becomes meaningless to most people (its just a number at some point) and these types of perks give more bank for their buck in attracting workers than upping salaries.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  > these types of perks give more bank for their buck in attracting workers than upping salaries. Is there really a shortage of people wanting to work at these big companies regardless of perks tho?
  - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
    Compensation at Google went up over the years. A lot of the serious perks were put in in the early days when Google was a much smaller company scrambling to try to get the brightest people it could. Honestly most of us who came later were merely riding the coat-tails of that era. Also 'base' compensation at Google was never that high when I was there. It was the RSUs that made it a very prosperous place to work. And those take a few years to vest and get you up into Really Good Money territory. So in the meantime, perks are key in retention. But the key point is that Google is just swimming in stupid amounts of $$ from ad revenues. Not spending good $$ on employee retention and compensation would actually have deleterious effects on morale. Most jobs are just slinging protobufs around and keeping those $$ systems up and running-- but those systems are important to Google. People saying Google is irresponsible with money probably haven't looked at the balance sheet. They can spend boatloads on compensation and still make more money than almost any other company.
kevinmchugh 4y ago
If you're talking about TikTok videos, those are recruitment tools and I don't expect they're representative.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  Yeah some of them were TikTok. I don't know if it's gloating or recruitment tools, I'm just observing as a non-US person that's never seen perks even remotely similar.
  - tmerr 4y ago
    Social media is played up like reality TV. Perks are good but working at a faang is 90% just work, like anywhere else.
    - zoover2020 4y ago
      What is the other 10% that we do?
      - unforeseen9991 4y ago
        Posting on social media
  - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
    The best perk at Google was the food. That, and the great $$. All the other stuff is mostly just window-dressing. It's the payoff for keeping the money printing machine running.
    - flashgordon 4y ago
      For sure. Frankly even food I didn't care much for. But sure. 401k and health care were the only must haves for me. People keep saying $$ but it was largely dependent on the quality of counter offers and refreshers were pretty average.
MarkSweep 4y ago
> it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working I would not take those videos of representative of an actual “day in the life”. They obviously don’t include any actual working, as it would violate non disclosure agreements.
raydev 4y ago
> when you have these people posting 'day in the life of twitter' 'day in the life as a google yelp elitist', etc. Where it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working I've been seeing this comment a lot in the last year as the TikTok tech-worker influencers started making waves, and I've struggled to understand it. There are even videos where non-monetary perks aren't shown, it's just the tech worker in their nice apartment using nice things they buy, and people still lose their minds thinking "this person doesn't work". Do you need to see an 8 hour long video of them at their desk? Their commutes, too? I think we're still in the transition period where there's enormous groups of people who don't understand how social media works. Reminds me of that apocryphal story of the theater audience screaming in terror when they saw a train moving towards the camera.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  I haven’t seen any of their apartments. I’ve only seen the ones at the office. The tiktok girl about Twitter and she spent most of the morning being lazy then having a meeting in a pod then being lazy. The other was a Google girl who was part of the layoffs and she posted about going into the office and having breakfast and then going to these rooms to listen to music etc. And so I wonder what these people’s roles actually are?!?
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  > I think we're still in the transition period where there's enormous groups of people who don't understand how social media works. And/Or some people just really get off on being outraged/indignant.

bawolff 4y ago

> I still think Google/Facebook/Twitter are just giant daycare centers for adult babies Its just a way to pay people in things that aren't money. After a certain point more $$$ becomes meaningless to most people (its just a number at some point) and these types of perks give more bank for their buck in attracting workers than upping salaries.

philliphaydon 4y ago
> these types of perks give more bank for their buck in attracting workers than upping salaries. Is there really a shortage of people wanting to work at these big companies regardless of perks tho?
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  Compensation at Google went up over the years. A lot of the serious perks were put in in the early days when Google was a much smaller company scrambling to try to get the brightest people it could. Honestly most of us who came later were merely riding the coat-tails of that era. Also 'base' compensation at Google was never that high when I was there. It was the RSUs that made it a very prosperous place to work. And those take a few years to vest and get you up into Really Good Money territory. So in the meantime, perks are key in retention. But the key point is that Google is just swimming in stupid amounts of $$ from ad revenues. Not spending good $$ on employee retention and compensation would actually have deleterious effects on morale. Most jobs are just slinging protobufs around and keeping those $$ systems up and running-- but those systems are important to Google. People saying Google is irresponsible with money probably haven't looked at the balance sheet. They can spend boatloads on compensation and still make more money than almost any other company.

kevinmchugh 4y ago

If you're talking about TikTok videos, those are recruitment tools and I don't expect they're representative.

philliphaydon 4y ago
Yeah some of them were TikTok. I don't know if it's gloating or recruitment tools, I'm just observing as a non-US person that's never seen perks even remotely similar.
- tmerr 4y ago
  Social media is played up like reality TV. Perks are good but working at a faang is 90% just work, like anywhere else.
  - zoover2020 4y ago
    What is the other 10% that we do?
    - unforeseen9991 4y ago
      Posting on social media
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  The best perk at Google was the food. That, and the great $$. All the other stuff is mostly just window-dressing. It's the payoff for keeping the money printing machine running.
  - flashgordon 4y ago
    For sure. Frankly even food I didn't care much for. But sure. 401k and health care were the only must haves for me. People keep saying $$ but it was largely dependent on the quality of counter offers and refreshers were pretty average.

MarkSweep 4y ago

> it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working I would not take those videos of representative of an actual “day in the life”. They obviously don’t include any actual working, as it would violate non disclosure agreements.

raydev 4y ago

> when you have these people posting 'day in the life of twitter' 'day in the life as a google yelp elitist', etc. Where it seems like majority of the day is spent pampering oneself than actually working I've been seeing this comment a lot in the last year as the TikTok tech-worker influencers started making waves, and I've struggled to understand it. There are even videos where non-monetary perks aren't shown, it's just the tech worker in their nice apartment using nice things they buy, and people still lose their minds thinking "this person doesn't work". Do you need to see an 8 hour long video of them at their desk? Their commutes, too? I think we're still in the transition period where there's enormous groups of people who don't understand how social media works. Reminds me of that apocryphal story of the theater audience screaming in terror when they saw a train moving towards the camera.

philliphaydon 4y ago
I haven’t seen any of their apartments. I’ve only seen the ones at the office. The tiktok girl about Twitter and she spent most of the morning being lazy then having a meeting in a pod then being lazy. The other was a Google girl who was part of the layoffs and she posted about going into the office and having breakfast and then going to these rooms to listen to music etc. And so I wonder what these people’s roles actually are?!?
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
> I think we're still in the transition period where there's enormous groups of people who don't understand how social media works. And/Or some people just really get off on being outraged/indignant.