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-- Sincerely yours, Erwin Fransiscus sent from NexusHD2 2.3.7 On Nov 10, 2011 7:37 PM, "Owen Samuel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Koq rasanya too good to be true ya > > writernya bilang dia juga dulu ga percaya hehe > > Tapi buset dah > Ada juga perusahaan kaya gitu > > Kalo di Freeport gimana yak > On Nov 10, 2011 2:11 PM, "Erwin Fransiscus" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> sorry klo repost..dapat kiriman dr teman, buat baca2 aja >> >> -- >> Sincerely yours, >> @ErwinFransiscus >> >> sent from NexusHD2 2.3.7 >> ---------- Forwarded message ----- >> https://plus.google.com/110569673423509816572/post/N7evqCpeimN >> >> I've tried writing another Amazon War Story a couple of times, but so far >> no luck. It's not Writer's Block. I can write plenty. This time my problem >> is Writer's Crap. So today I'll try something different, and write about >> working at Google. >> >> The main problem with writing about Google is that nobody will believe >> you. >> >> My friend +Dominic Cooney and I were talking about it one time. I told >> him I felt this secret guilt every time I went to work, because everyone >> was so smart and they treat you so well. I told him I truly felt like I >> didn't deserve it. >> >> Dominic said he knew what I meant, and that every day at Google he felt >> like he'd won the lottery. >> >> It's crazy. This guy is hands-down one of the smartest people I've ever >> worked with in my life, and he told me that working at Google felt like >> winning the lottery. How many of you can honestly say that about your job? >> I mean, sure, Amazon felt like that to me sometimes, but it was more like >> Shirley Jackson's lottery. >> >> I've been wanting to write up how it really is here, but it's too much. >> It's like trying to introduce you to warm chocolate cake by forcing you to >> swim through a lake of it. I remember once my brother Dave and I bought the >> biggest pieces of chocolate we could find in Ghirardelli's Square in San >> Francisco, and we ate chocolate until we couldn't choke any more down. The >> next morning I woke up to Dave waving a hunk of chocolate in front of my >> nose, saying: "Want some choooooocolate?" and I almost puked. >> >> It's kind of like that. My challenge is to find a way to describe Google >> to you without making you puke. >> >> Speaking of Ghirardelli's Square, my Amazon pager went off while I was >> there once, on vacation, and I had to dial in to a conference call about a >> site outage while I was eating my ice cream. My challenge with Amazon is >> finding a way to describe it without making me puke. But I'll figure >> something out, eventually. In many ways they're a world-class operation -- >> primarily in ways that matter to their customers; employees, not so much. >> But I guess in the end it's the customers that matter. >> >> Anyway, until I figure that one out, I guess I'll write about Google. >> >> Google has offices all over the world, dozens of them, and I've only been >> to a few. So I'll tell you about Google Kirkland, where I work. It's a >> pretty average office in terms of size, location and perks. But it's what I >> know best. >> >> Here's what it's like in Google Kirkland. At least, here's a little piece >> of it, on a little plate with a white napkin and a silver fork. Enjoy. >> >> Food >> >> At Google there's a lot of food. Everyone at other companies just shrugs >> it off as "free food", which is sort of like shrugging off Google's giant >> yearly bonuses as "occasional tips". In our three little buildings here we >> have three cafeterias, at least six or eight kitchen areas filled with free >> snacks, two espresso cafes staffed with barristas, a 1950s-style dessert >> bar, a frozen yogurt machine with a self-serve toppings bar, probably a >> dozen fridges filled with free drinks, a weekly Farmer's Market all summer >> where you can take home huge bags of locally-grown veggies, and every >> Friday afternoon, long tables of themed hors d'oeuvres and beer and wine >> while we watch TGIF. Am I forgetting anything? I'm sure I am. >> >> And the food is good. One of our chefs was the Executive Chef at the >> Earth and Ocean restaurant in the W hotel in downtown Seattle, and the >> other one had equally impressive credentials. The cafe in my building, Sudo >> Cafe, has a DIY burger bar, daily entree selections, a pizza bar, a >> sandwich bar and panini press, a rotisserie, a salad bar, a fruit bar, two >> daily soup selections, a vegetarian and vegan selection, and random bowls >> of fruit and cakes and all sorts of other stuff lying around to tempt you. >> To me it feels like Ofelia's second task in Pan's Labyrinth, except look >> ma, no monster. >> >> There are three meals a day, five days a week, all you can eat for free. >> You can even bring guests to lunch. The salad and sandwich and espresso >> bars stay open between meals, and the micro-kitchens are open 24x7. And for >> those who wonder whether it's OK to take some food home once in a while, >> there are take-out containers sitting right next to the plates. >> >> Amusingly, every other Google office I've ever been to had better food >> than we do. The old NYC office had an olive bar that was longer than the >> one at Whole Foods. The Seattle office has microbrews on tap. The Mountain >> View main campus has more than forty cafes and restaurants. Kirkland's food >> has been catching up fast in the past year or two, but the bar is insanely >> high. >> >> Why all the free gourmet food? I don't know. Maybe they're planning to >> cook us and eat us. That's the most plausible explanation we've been able >> to think of. That, and the fact that we're never tempted to leave the >> campus at lunchtime or afternoon-tea time, so we all wind up working at >> least an extra half an hour a day. But that can't possibly be a sufficient >> return on investment for Google, not by a long shot. >> >> I think the real explanation is that they do it because that's part of >> how you create an environment that attracts the smartest people in the >> world. I'm not in that category, but for a while I was gunning for fattest >> person in the world, so they managed to attract me too. >> >> Facilities >> >> There's free underground parking, but there aren't quite enough spots. So >> they have a free valet service. The valets park your car and bring your >> keys up to your office later in the day. (Amazon never had free parking. As >> far as I know, they still don't.) >> >> The decor at Google is colorful and makes the whole place feel more fun. >> I know it doesn't seem like a big deal. Who cares about the decor, right? >> But I've worked in typical cube-farm companies, and there's something >> magical about Google's decor. I've been to Microsoft a few times, too. >> Their decor is opulent and fancy, like going to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. >> Google's decor is more like walking into an FAO Schwarz toy store. >> >> The cafe in our newest building has a nautical theme. It has hardwood >> floors the color of a boat deck, and big rope spools turned sideways into >> tables, and portholes that look through a hallway decorated with ship-deck >> furniture onto a huge wall mural of downtown Seattle. Oh, and there are >> boats. I gave my brother Mike and his friend Jay a tour of the place over >> the weekend, and Jay was trying really hard not to be impressed. He started >> to crack when he saw the gym, but it was the boats that finally got him. >> >> "How did they get them IN here?" was Mike's question. Mike's got his own >> construction company and has worked with heavy equipment, and all he could >> do was marvel at these big frigging boats on the second floor. They're >> these, I dunno, roofed gondola-looking boats with leather bench-seats. >> They're there so you can have an impromptu meeting on a boat, or work on >> your laptop on a boat, or just hang out on a boat and have some espresso >> and soak up that nice boat feeling, I guess. >> >> Downstairs one of the video-conference rooms has comfy leather chairs and >> wall-to-wall murals of farmland scenery, and a stable with a bunch of hay >> and a couple of horses. Yep, you heard that right. They startle the crap >> out of people the first time they go in there. Couple o' great big stuffed >> horses like you might find at, say, FAO Schwarz. >> >> I mean, don't get me wrong here. Amazon had some decor too. And by "some >> decor", I mean a Cave Bear. One day a Cave Bear skeleton showed up, >> standing a good ten or twelve feet high, complete with an >> anatomically-correct dick-bone attached to its pelvic region with a movable >> steel wire. It became a sort of ad-hoc weathervane for employee morale. >> >> Just as with the food, I could go on for chapters about the facilities >> and probably never finish, because they keep adding new stuff. There's a >> climbing wall, and pool tables, and foosball tables, and a bunch of $5000 >> fancy massage chairs with incomprehensible Japanese instructions. Man they >> feel nice though. There's a super nice 24-hour gym, and lush real plants >> everywhere, and a doctor's office with a full-time Google doctor, and a >> haircut place where the Corporate Cuts lady comes by a few times a week. >> >> Oh, and there's a massage salon with three or four licensed massage >> therapists. That's a Google tradition. Ours is subsidized down to >> practically no cost for an hour-long table massage. And there are prayer >> rooms, and a basketball court, and a dog park with Google-colored fire >> hydrants to pee on, and breast-feeding rooms for new moms, and electric-car >> spots, and a red British phone booth that I assume is for changing into >> superhero costumes, and gigantic oversized lava lamps, and comfy couches >> around roaring fireplaces, and a photo booth, and a bike cage with a tool >> bench and an air compressor, and hammocks and bean-bag chairs, and a >> room-length shuffleboard table, and three or four game rooms with air >> hockey and ping-pong and XBoxes and Wiis and arcade games with thousands of >> titles, and on and ON and ON. >> >> I mean, damn. You thought I was exaggerating when I told you nobody would >> believe me, didn't you? >> >> And sadly I can't even tell you about the two new coolest things they're >> opening here, because they won't officially launch until next week. But >> it's always like that. I've been putting this post off for years because >> there's always some new thing in the works that I want to wait for before I >> tell you about it all. >> >> Amazing True Story: One day I started getting jealous of this digital >> piano that people were playing every day. So I sent a nice email to someone >> in facilities asking if there was any chance we might be able to get a >> guitar. She said it sounded like a good idea and she promised to look into >> it. >> >> A month went by, and I started to get a little sad, because I thought >> they were just not interested. But I sent her a little email and asked if >> there was any update. Just hoping, you know, against hope. >> >> She told me: "Oh yeah, I'm sorry -- I forgot to tell you. We talked it >> over with the directors, and we all decided the best thing to do was to >> build a music studio." >> >> So now we have Soundgarden over in Building A. It has two rooms: one with >> soundproofing and two electric guitars and a bass and a keyboard and a drum >> set and a jam hub and amps and all kinds of other crap that I can't >> identify except to say that it's really popular. The other room has a >> ukulele and some sort of musical drum and a jazz guitar and some other >> classical instruments. >> >> Remember back in the first paragraph of my infamous rant, where I made >> the bizarre claim that "Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does >> everything right?" It's a pretty complex claim to try to explain, but I >> feel like the "Ask for a guitar, get a music studio" story is one of the >> best metaphors for how the two companies operate. At Google, when they're >> faced with any kind of problem at all -- anything -- they step back and >> ask: "What is the first-class way to solve it?" Whereas at Amazon, I >> wouldn't even have been able to ask the question, because there's nobody to >> ask. Amazon's facilities team is tiny, and they spend all their time trying >> to solve the problem of squeezing more employees into less space. >> >> Events >> >> Google has twelve paid holidays a year in the US. In contrast, Amazon had >> five, at least when I was there. At Google we get two days at Christmas, >> two at New Year's, two at Thanksgiving, and then six others. Pretty nice. >> >> Every year we have a company morale trip. One year they put us up for the >> night at the Whistler ski resort, including a fancy bus ride there and >> back, a fancy hotel room, free rental equipment and lift tickets, free >> lessons if we wanted them, and of course a massive party with a live band >> and giant dinner and open bar and a chocolate fountain and mechanical bull >> and whatnot. You know, the usual. >> >> Actually +Adam de Boor tells me I missed some stuff. He went dogsledding, >> and you could alternately go snowmobiling or get spa treatments or choose >> some other options we've both forgotten now. Psh. That was so last year. >> >> This year we had two trips -- you could pick whichever one you liked >> better. Half of us went skiing overnight and the other half went to Vegas. >> I went skiing, but I heard Vegas was pretty awesome. As you might expect. >> >> But regardless of which trip you picked, everyone got to go to a Vegas >> "practice night" a few weeks before the trip. They set up a casino in the >> cafeteria, catered by some local company that provides tables and dealers. >> The dealers gave lessons to anyone who wanted to learn to play craps or >> poker or blackjack or roulette. Craps is frigging complicated, so I went >> and played poker until I was too drunk to see my cards anymore, and went >> and crashed on a couch upstairs. I do remember at one point some guy pushed >> all his chips at me and left, even though he hadn't lost or anything. I >> didn't even see who it was, but if it was you -- thanks! >> >> The morale trip for every Google office is different, and usually >> different each year. One year down in Mountain View they took everyone >> skiing in Lake Tahoe. Another year they rented out Disneyland. >> >> Every December we have a huge holiday party. Everyone dresses up (well, >> it's Seattle, so it's not that dressy). They do the casino thing there too, >> and you get a thousand "dollars" of fake money in chips that you can spend >> at the casino, with the overall winner getting an iPad or some such. The >> holiday parties are my favorite. You bring your S.O. and get your pic taken >> with Santa. And they bring arcade games and golf cages and table games and >> sometimes even those big outdoor inflatable carnival games, except they're >> indoors and you compete on them while you're hammered. >> >> Last year was the best one yet -- they rented out the Experience Music >> Project and Pacific Science Center in downtown Seattle, and threw the party >> there. It was amazing. >> >> We just had our yearly Halloween party. There were like 300 kids there, >> all going through this elaborate scary haunted-house setup in one of the >> auditorium rooms, and then going office-to-office to trick-or-treat. The >> whole campus was decorated with Halloween decor -- spiders and cobwebs and >> stuff that you see all year round at some companies. It was nice. >> >> Every summer we have a company picnic, and you can bring your whole >> family. Last summer they had hiking and golf and horseback riding and >> rafting and carnival games and rides and huge outdoor barbecues and who >> knows what else. They pretty much had me at "golf", so I didn't pay much >> attention to the other attractions. >> >> Every single week Google has TGIF, where Larry and Sergey and various VPs >> go up on stage and give a report on the exciting stuff that's happened in >> the past week, and then field questions from Googlers. There is a site >> where you can submit questions for that week's TGIF, and vote questions up >> or down. So by the time TGIF rolls around, the top questions are the really >> burning ones that everyone wants answered. And you can ask about anything. >> They even take live questions from an open mic in the audience. And there's >> always beer and wine, so the live questions tend to be rather pointed and >> direct, at least when they're intelligible. >> >> Contrast that with Amazon, where they have something similar, but >> it'squarterly, and you have to write your questions down on index cards >> that are then vetted by some secret cabal who chooses which questions are >> suitable for Jeff Bezos to answer. >> >> In addition to our yearly morale offsite, and the holiday party, and the >> halloween party, and the summer picnic, and the weekly TGIF, and any other >> regularly-scheduled parties I've overlooked, Google also has random other >> parties and offsites all the time. We all go bowling every now and then, >> and they take us all to movie premieres when something extra cool comes out >> (anything from Harry Potter to An Inconvenient Truth), and we sometimes >> just go down to the lake and have a catered lunch at the pavilion when the >> weather is nice. >> >> We also have guest lecturers, and performances from bands, and seemingly >> random other "stuff". You can never predict what it will be. Sometimes we >> get fancy gifts for no apparent reason. Last year we all got "Fireswords", >> which are these insanely bright $400 flashlights that we had to sign >> waivers for because they can actually blind you, presumably in an attempt >> to generate more grass-roots interest in Accessibility. Another time they >> gave us all Earthquake Preparedness Backpacks, which are these black packs >> that weigh about a thousand pounds. I have no idea what's in mine, but it >> feels heavy enough to keep the building from moving during an earthquake. >> >> Every year they give us a holiday bonus and a holiday gift. A couple >> years in a row we got Android phones. I'm still using my latest one. I >> don't think there's any guarantee that we'll get a holiday gift every year, >> but so far they've seen fit to give us all gifts, and I don't hear anyone >> complaining. >> >> At Amazon they were always terrified that they'd create a sense of >> entitlement, so they never gave us anything. They went to great lengths to >> avoid instilling a sense of entitlement in the employees, and they often >> talked about this philosophy publicly. >> >> Google handles the entitlement problem by not giving a shit. They just >> keep on throwing stuff at us: gifts and perks and activities and facilities >> and benefits and vacations and lord knows what else. And guess what? There >> is almost no sense of entitlement here. When it does come up, Googlers >> self-police: they'll publicly ridicule anyone who complains that the >> brownies aren't sweet enough, or whatever. >> >> The only people who I think don't really "get" it, who don't realize just >> how different Google is from the Real World, are college hires who've never >> worked anywhere else. I always tell people we should have a "slap an >> intern" program, just to give them a little taste of what working at other >> places is like. I feel kind of bad for them, should they ever have the >> misfortune to go work somewhere else. It will be quite a shock for them. >> >> Wrap-Up >> >> Like I said: this could be a book. I haven't even begun to talk about the >> amazing equipment we get. Or the incredible travel policies. Or how easy it >> is to request special software or hardware or ergonomic equipment. Or the >> astounding lengths they'll go to in supporting employees with disabilities. >> Or the peer-committee promotion process. Or the software engineering >> culture. Or any of the gazillion other amazing things about this place. >> >> Like I said: it's too much. And half of you probably wouldn't believe me >> anyway. I sure as hell didn't believe my recruiter when she was telling me >> about this place seven years ago. >> >> Are there downsides? Sure. A few. The food can make you fat. The >> environment can make you spoiled. The smart people around you can give you >> Degree Envy. Some people don't do well with the lack of structure, since >> it's geared towards self-motivated people who figure out what to work on. >> You can even wind up on a project that's got a little too much heat on it, >> and be briefly miserable -- but compared to daily life at most companies, >> that misery is pretty well soaked in sugar frosting. >> >> I hope this puts a little more context around some of the things I've >> said about Amazon, though. I would guess that Amazon is in the bottom half >> of the industry in terms of being a nice place to work -- but not in the >> bottom 25%. I've seen much worse than Amazon. Heck, pre-2000 Amazon was >> much worse than today-Amazon. Overall I'd say that today they're probably >> just a little below the average, industry-wide. >> >> So comparing Amazon to Google is a little unfair, because >> comparinganyone to Google is unfair. Google's undoubtedly in the top 0.1% >> of the best places to work in the world, across anything even remotely >> computer-related. >> >> Hopefully it helps you understand a little better where I was coming >> from. I didn't really use the right wording before, when I said that Google >> does everything "right". It's more accurate to say they do >> everythingawesome. >> >> Is this stuff worth writing a book about? 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