I work at a place with a lot of toys, pool tables, free coffee, and beer on tap. When I read the title and the first half of the article I couldn't have disagre

I work at a place with a lot of toys, pool tables, free coffee, and beer on tap. When I read the title and the first half of the article I couldn't have disagreed more. I love what I do and I love the environment I'm in. But after finishing your post I realized that I agree with you 100%, nice added benefits don't matter at all unless you work in a nurturing environment, and hey, if that environment offers cool stuff, that's awesome. I love the team I work with and our company culture, and that wouldn't change at all if we didn't have pool tables or free beer. I think advertising things like nerf guns and free soda in job interviews is just an implicit way to make you think the company has a good culture, but that's really not what you should be centering your view of the company around, you should wait until you actually communicate with the people there and figure out the company culture, then re-evaluate with the extra bonuses to see if it's right for you. My last job was at small office building with cubicles and sometimes free breakfast, and you know what? I still loved the hell out of it because it was an insanely open environment between employees and project managers, and it was some of the most challenging and rewarding work I've done.