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Old 04-10-2006, 05:38 PM   #21
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The company is really employee friendly. Besides the obvious stock options (which are sizzling right now), you never need to worry about buying food again, because they offer you breakfast, lunch and dinner (which I've never heard of in any other company).
It's because they don't want people to leave the campus if they don't have to. Google also has an onsite hairdresser/barber and dentist.

In one way, I guess it's good not to have to leave work to do those things. On the other hand, do you really want to work such long hours that you eat all your meals there?
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It's because they don't want people to leave the campus if they don't have to. Google also has an onsite hairdresser/barber and dentist.

In one way, I guess it's good not to have to leave work to do those things. On the other hand, do you really want to be such long hours that you eat all your meals there?
They also give you free massages
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Old 04-11-2006, 05:50 AM   #23
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The company is really employee friendly. Besides the obvious stock options (which are sizzling right now), you never need to worry about buying food again, because they offer you breakfast, lunch and dinner (which I've never heard of in any other company). Other cool stuff is that you do not work in a "group" but rather you just work on the next project, so you never get bored. You don't get hired to do something specific, but whatever comes up. And they have a whole big ass huge white board, where people don't write actual work on it, but it's rather like a graffiti place where everyone can draw what they want. (Like a graffiti for nerds )
hehehe , you sound like food benefit is your major consideration for this job

good luck and send a thank you / follow up letter to them in due course!

but don't gain twenty something lbs if you really start working there!
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It's because they don't want people to leave the campus if they don't have to. Google also has an onsite hairdresser/barber and dentist.

In one way, I guess it's good not to have to leave work to do those things. On the other hand, do you really want to work such long hours that you eat all your meals there?
Can you sleep there too?

Then all they need is a few bars and restaurants and you could even socialise there. No reason to leave... at all!
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I visited Eli Lilly a few years back and I don't think they gave you meals but they had everything else on the premises - salon, gym, daycare, post office. It was like a small city.
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hehehe , you sound like food benefit is your major consideration for this job

good luck and send a thank you / follow up letter to them in due course!

but don't gain twenty something lbs if you really start working there!
You're forgetting the word "gourmet". At least I have my priorities straight.
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You're forgetting the word "gourmet". At least I have my priorities straight.
Gourmet? Give me a sausage, egg and bacon butty in a skanky canteen any day!
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Old 04-17-2006, 04:40 PM   #28
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Just a small update. You were all right I did pass the phone screening interview, although it felt like I really bombed it. I guess I did something right. Thanks all for believing in me, when I doubted myself.

Anyway, I had an onsite interview with them today, and I think I did fairly good. I did not ace it, and I sumbled on some questions, but at least I have a chance of getting an offer. It's definitely much better than I felt I would do before the interview. Man if I get it, it'll be the most awesome thing that happened to me in the last few years, and I will give everyone here a huuuuuuuuuuge (((((((((((((((()))))))))))))). Maybe I can slip some of you to have some of that gourmet food

Crossing my fingers and waiting... Will keep you updated.
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Just a small update. You were all right I did pass the phone screening interview, although it felt like I really bombed it. I guess I did something right. Thanks all for believing in me, when I doubted myself.

Anyway, I had an onsite interview with them today, and I think I did fairly good. I did not ace it, and I sumbled on some questions, but at least I have a chance of getting an offer. It's definitely much better than I felt I would do before the interview. Man if I get it, it'll be the most awesome thing that happened to me in the last few years, and I will give everyone here a huuuuuuuuuuge (((((((((((((((()))))))))))))). Maybe I can slip some of you to have some of that gourmet food

Crossing my fingers and waiting... Will keep you updated.
Hey, congratulations! Phone interviews are crappy and hard for everyone, really, so I'd be surprised if anyone really does all that amazingly at that part. Hope you get the job... Google's right on my drive from Santa Cruz to San Rafael, a nice gourmet breakfast en route would be good
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W00t!!

Congrats so far.

Save some leftovers for me - I'll be by on Saturday mornings to pick them up.
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Phone interviews are scary, especially because you can't see the person and therefore can't gauge their reactions all that well. It's even worse if you're like me and get really really nervous on the phone in general.

That being said, hope you get the job (and the food)!
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It's because they don't want people to leave the campus if they don't have to. Google also has an onsite hairdresser/barber and dentist.
That's kind of creepy. Your whole life would be Google. I bet inter-employee dating is astronomical. Ohhh drama! I wonder if it will lead to another minor baby boom of autistic children like in Silicon Valley?
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Oh man I so desperately want to go to the San Francisco Bay Area. Am I completely mistaken that the entire cool adventuregaming community is located there, and I mean the fans, the companies, the geniuses, the greatest minds of the US?
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I eventually want to live in San Francisco as a writer and artist, but I'm not sure when in the future that will be.
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Oh man I so desperately want to go to the San Francisco Bay Area. Am I completely mistaken that the entire cool adventuregaming community is located there, and I mean the fans, the companies, the geniuses, the greatest minds of the US?
and the earthquakes
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He already lives in L.A.
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Who, me? I'm here in the very modest and petite country of the Netherlands, which apparantly is the other hotbed of the adventuregaming community for some reason here

But really, I'm starting to get this weird craving to move to 'Frisco. As in a dream I've been summoned. If you build it, he will come. Is that weird? One day I'll take a week-long vacation there, and I hope I'll fall in love with the city, and then maybe I'll just go and live there. Is that a weird dream to have when you've never even been there?
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