I've always wondered how "Life at <insertBigTechCompanyHere>" compared between the big ones. I've heard a lot about the Google life, but what about MS? Yahoo? Twitter? Facebook? The rest?
> Make the food in the café free. If an employee eats an average of $15 of food per day (the actual average at Google which is closer to $10) it would cost Microsoft $3,750 per year per employee to offer 3 meals a day. Instead of increasing starting salaries, switch to free food
I'm not sure this is a good idea. I wouldn't want my employer to assume that the extra $3750 (assuming the calculation is correct for now) will go in food. Salary increase sounds much better. But probably thats just me.
for my last company we convinced management that it was the right choice to have lunch provided in the office. We mostly went out to eat a food trucks or popular places in SF where the walk+wait time might be 45-60 minutes then you eat. So the time wasted going out to eat was much more then the cost to bring food into the office.
The current situation of people sitting at their desks for 8 hours solid a day has been shown to reduce life expectancy. Then there is the proven benefits of walking 30 minutes a day and the psychological benefits of Vitamin D exposure.
Campus cafeterias/food delivery should actually be gotten rid of.
Then the IRS ads this benefit in kind to you income for tax purposes so the actual benefit is taxed. I would rather have an extra 3.75 k in options which are much more tax efficient.
I don't understand why the comments on the blog post are so hostile. Lots of people were calling for this person's head, when what they distributed is fairly tame.
This isn't someone sharing their experience publicly, but a copy-paste from Microsoft's internal mailing list, see the note at the top:
The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.
So those are Microsoft employees upset about public airing of only semi-public laundry. I wouldn't mind if i wrote something like this and someone put it online, but i can see that someone else might.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 41.6 ms ] threadI'm not sure this is a good idea. I wouldn't want my employer to assume that the extra $3750 (assuming the calculation is correct for now) will go in food. Salary increase sounds much better. But probably thats just me.
The current situation of people sitting at their desks for 8 hours solid a day has been shown to reduce life expectancy. Then there is the proven benefits of walking 30 minutes a day and the psychological benefits of Vitamin D exposure.
Campus cafeterias/food delivery should actually be gotten rid of.
The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.
So those are Microsoft employees upset about public airing of only semi-public laundry. I wouldn't mind if i wrote something like this and someone put it online, but i can see that someone else might.