Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com) 102
From a report: If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky. And not just for the free meals, on-site health care or new-parent benefits. But those things probably factor into the social-networking giant being named the best place to work in 2018 by jobs site Glassdoor. And it's probably been a good experience for a while, seeing how this is the third year in a row Facebook has been atop Glassdoor's list of 100 best places to work. If you don't work at Facebook, there might still be hope for you. Glassdoor said there were 40 newcomers on this year's list, including video game maker Blizzard Entertainment (at No. 28 on the list) and wireless carrier T-Mobile (No. 79). There are also three veterans that have made the list every year since it was introduced 10 years ago, including management-consulting firm Bain & Company (No. 2), search giant Google (No. 5) and Apple (No. 84).
It's a company town, Joe... (Score:4, Insightful)
Like Bisbee, AZ or Foxconn City.
Free meals, medical care on site? What's not to like? Pretty soon, they'll put up the housing and you'll never have to leave the company plantation.
This is why I like living and working in cities -- gives you more random interactions with people, a choice of where to live, work, eat, etc.
Re:It's a company town, Joe... (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed... (Score:2)
.com. ;)
Re:It's a company town, Joe... (Score:5, Funny)
Does the employment agreement allow Facebook to harvest an employee's vital organs (assuming their ISP hasn't already gotten them first)?
Isn't everyone at Facebook a user of PHP? Does PHP show up on a random drug test?
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Re:It's a company town, Joe... (Score:5, Insightful)
The only "perks" I want are a humane amount of vacation time (3-4 weeks, as most of the world gets) and 40 hour weeks. Oh, and good pay. I can find my own social life outside of the company door.
I don't want to be enticed to live my entire life at work.
Re:It's a company town, Joe... (Score:4, Informative)
UK legal minimum is 5 weeks, and most of Europe is similar. 3 weeks is a joke, not nearly enough.
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Re:It's a company town, Joe... (Score:4, Insightful)
The cost of living in the US is a joke. And by living we include healthcare.
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UK and most of European salaries are a joke, so I'd call it even.
Fucking please. If you want to see the true joke, take a good hard look at the amount of money you're forced to piss away on various forms of taxes and insurance.
US gross pay doesn't mean dick when your take-home wage is pathetic. You can also say goodbye to that retirement nest egg the instant you come down with any sort of real medical ailment.
All of this tends to highlight the real reason gross pay is more; so US capitalistic greed can benefit from it.
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UK and most of European salaries are a joke, so I'd call it even.
So are most of the US's. This is the problem with massive inequality, even in the wealthiest nation on earth most people are still considered poor.
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No it's not, it's 4 weeks.
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The problem with "Perks" is that there is a cost for them to the Company. That cost could just as easily be exchanged for more employee pay so that YOU can choose what "Perks" YOU want to offer yourself. I work at a small company and we have this discussion all the time: "Would you rather have more cash pay or XYZ perk." Every time the result is XYZ perk is great for 3/4 of the people but is worthless for 1/4 and so we continue to opt for more pay, which allows everyone to buy whatever god damn "perk" we
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It's quite common to provide a meal and maybe some exercise facilities at European companies. It's considered a fairly standard perk. Smaller places order food in, larger places have their own kitchen and staff.
Child care and some medical services are also starting to appear, especially in Japan where the government really wants people to have more children.
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Yeah at the HQ there are lunches in the cafeteria and my our office, meal vouchers that can be used in most restaurants nearby. There's also a gym that I use instead of going out for lunch.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, my satisfaction with the company as a place of work has little to do with any of this and mostly with the direct team, manager, and work culture there. While everyone puts in maximum time and effort when necessary, you can make up for it by bailing early on Fridays or other slow days. Nobo
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If Japan wants more children, they need to ban the sexbots first
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I did a command F and couldn't find HPE or HP Inc.
What happened to Google? (Score:2)
I am just wondering what may have happened to Google.
Did Google deteriorate or Facebook just became better?
Disclaimer: I post this message with a bias. I have come to hate Google of late; especially when it comes to product/feature execution on Android. I still use their products daily, though.
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I am just wondering what may have happened to Google.
I was on the main Google campus a year ago for a job interview. And maybe it's just the sour grapes talking since I didn't get an offer. But, wow, was it bleak!
The famous Google free lunches were in cafes that were horribly overcrowded - and the food was smugly pretentious - very low quality pizza but with arugula and goat cheese. Congratulations, Google you ruined pizza! It was what you would expect if a bunch of hippies who didn't like each other and weren't feeling at all generous got together for a potl
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I am just wondering what may have happened to Google.
According to TFA, it's better to work at In'N'Out burger and flip burgers than work at Google.
I get to censor people! WHEE!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Of course it is.
It's a bastion of reactionary, authoritarian Leftism plonked right down in the middle of one of the furthest left-leaning cities in a state that's practically deranged by how far left it leans.
(These people think if they subvert local government, they can completely exempt themselves from federal laws whenever they want. Oh, and they want to secede because the rest of the country isn't as nuts as they are.)
Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
(a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
(b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
(c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.
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Everybody who agrees with someone else's views usually refers to them as centrist. I'm sure Stalin thought his views were fairly centrist as well. And don't even pretend California could exist on its own. Just the water issue alone is enough to derail it.
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Yeah, but this is the Trail Mix state.
NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NUKES EVIL! NO NUKES!
And good luck procuring enough solar capacity to make desalination a viable option.
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A) Tomato, Tomato. It's basically the equivalent of driving from the south side of Chicago to the north side. Pfft. And considering that, north to south, Cali is almost TWICE the length of Illinois and roughly the same width... Let's just agree that your idea of "near" and mine are different...
B) Californians come in 4 varieties.
* 1) Crazies
* 2) People who're stuck there with the crazies.
* 3) People who're in the process of moviing out.
* 4) People who're moving in because they don't understand "CRAZIES!
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The state is already broke with all infrastructure and public services in total collapse
Oh, that's adorable - you watch Fox News! I know this because reality doesn't actually reflect the nonsense you're asserting as fact, and Fox & Friends are the main outlets for that particular fiction.
add a defense budget and it would be lights out.
First, I agree that Calexit is nuts. I don't support it at all. That said, back in reality land, California and other blue states [taxfoundation.org] prop up the rest of the country financially. CA could afford to maintain the military bases it already has if we weren't saddled with supporting broke-ass red states [taxfoundation.org] like Missis
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Look again. It's not just how much are these states putting out.
How much federal money are they consuming?
Do the proper comparison and you'll find a much different picture.
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Right, what kind of leftist hell hole must it be where people are happy and content at work...
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Right, what kind of leftist hell hole must it be where people are happy and content at work...
Lots of cult members are happy where they are too. The only thing it really means is that the brainwashing is working.
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Lots of cult members are happy where they are too. The only thing it really means is that the brainwashing is working.
People in cults are happy.
Ergo anyone happy is in a cult.
Therefore we should make everyone unhappy so we guarantee they're not in a cult.
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No. There's simply ample evidence to draw a conclusion that FB is a heavily biased place to work in.
So long as your biases line up with theirs? It's all smooth sailing.
The second they DON'T? Look for a new job FAST because your life will become a living hell.
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Ergo anyone happy is in a cult.
Um, no. That is the most ridiculous logic I've heard in a very long time and I am now dumber for having read that. It terrifies me that people like you are allowed to vote.
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Um, no.
No shit sherlock!
That is the most ridiculous logic I've heard in a very long time and I am now dumber for having read that.
That's why I was mocking the OP for it.
It terrifies me that people like you are allowed to vote.
It sort of terrifies me that you vote after getting the wrng end of the stick quite so hard.
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Sorry, I don't find passive-aggressive snark-mavens such as yourself to be civilized OR intelligent. It's just a lie you tell yourself to feed into your superiority complex.
And, to highlight your idiocy. You're telling someone, ON THE INTERNET, to shut up. #Futility
"Light yourself on fire"
Yep, this is what I've come to expect from people like you.
"Trump Fag"
Didn't vote for him.
Don't care for him.
Liked Clinton even less.
Living in a state that's only Blue because of Chicago, my vote didn't really count for
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I get to censor people! WHEE!!!
I otice the "muh freeze peach" crowd have been awfully quiet about Facebook's latest actions:
https://www.theguardian.com/te... [theguardian.com]
I think you all have a huge case of double standards.
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No. I simply view it as a limited instance of people's own shortsightedness coming back and biting them in their over-privileged ass.
It doesn't mean I find censorship a Good Thing. Even with an isolated incident of egalitarianism.
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Only Americans could believe that California is "far left" or even "left" at all.
To the rest of the world, Californian politics and society are very far from left - centre-right at the very most. Neo-liberal corporate capitalism with a few minor bandaids to help keep it from being completely unbearable.
Americans tend to believe that anything which makes life under capitalism even slightly more tolerable is outrageously socialist.
so, yeah, California is deranged....but less so than most of the rest of Ameri
What do they know that we dont? (Score:2)
Pretty easy to pull off (Score:2)
If you enjoy a marketplace monopoly. Eventually the winds of fate will change and FB will face real market realities.
Ethics (Score:4, Insightful)
And lacking a sense a sense of ethics.
Survivors bias? (Score:2)
If you like the place you work when asked you fill out the survey, "Yeah cool a great place to work". If you hate it you leave. I cannot discern their methodology but I suspect this may be an important factor.
Re:Survivors bias? (Score:4, Insightful)
Many people stay at jobs they hate for all kinds of reasons...
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Studies consistently indicate that most people in the US hate their jobs, but stay with them anyway.
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You can leave a review on Glassdoor after you leave the company.
But you're right to point out that it's not clear what this analysis means. Maybe Facebook employees are more prone to interactions similar to what happens in social media, and therefore more likely to post on Glassdoor. Or maybe Facebook bribes their employees to leave positive reviews. Who knows.
I mean, I'm sure that Facebook is a good place to work, at least in a lot of ways, so I don't necessarily doubt the outcome of this survey. Sti
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Or you could just be a cynical old mercenary like myself.
I totally want to work at Facebook (Score:2)
Obligatory xkcd (Score:1)
https://www.xkcd.com/958/ [xkcd.com]
Subjective... (Score:3)
Wether a place is good to work at or not depends on your personal circumstances - what job do you do, who are your immediate colleagues and manager, how far do you have to commute to work etc. I've seen many companies were certain departments were treated like kings, while other people doing different jobs are treated like dirt.
Two Words (Score:2)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Score:1)
... came in at number 19.
Could it be that this list actually reflects organizations incentivizing voting on the list, rather than what the list purports? I wonder.
You learn what works (Score:3)
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An example: Someone complained that there were never enough meeting rooms open and they couldn't dis
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Case in point: I complained about an ethics issue.
I no longer work for the company (not by my choice, but I am happy with the result).
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My company takes feedback and it's worked well so far. Working hours changed (Friday afternoons off!), parking issues were sorted out, even the free coffee improved.
If your company can't handle feedback it's probably a symptom of deeper problems.
Facebook is sketchy as fuck (Score:2)
In-N-Out Burger? (Score:1)
I mean, sure its good for a fast food job, but higher than Salesforce? Hubspot? Google?
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In -N- out pays it's workers significantly better than most fast food places. As a result, they get the actually motivated young people working their first jobs. When I was a teenager I had multiple friends who fought to get a job there. If you're sixteen and everyone you know is schlubbing minimum wage, and you make two bucks more with coworkers who are actually smart, it can be a good working environment.
The managers can make around 120K, so that's not chump change either.
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Criteria (Score:1)
When you start bragging about how sparkly the shackles around your neck are, we've reach peak Huxleyism.
Best Place to Work? But do they... (Score:1)
let you... ... Post on Slashdot?
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