A friend of mine was telling me about his son’s new job at Facebook. Among the benefits for working at the headquarters in the SF area:
1. Free meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Free snacks, too.
2. On site free dry cleaning and laundry
3. Free gym with climbing wall
4. Free laptop and phone, new one every year
5. Free shuttle service if you live within 10 miles.
6. A $35,000 “relocation” account for you to use as you wish while you are moving.
7. A $35,000 signing bonus
8. Fantastic stock options
9. 21 days vacation plus 11 holidays (to start)
10. A mandatory 30 day paid vacation/sabbatical every 3 years.
11. A $15,000 annual bonus if you live within 10 miles.
I could go on and on, but those were the ones I remembered. Dad bragged that his son was starting at $175K, but with the different bonus packages, he was going to be making over $300K a year.
All I could think was “it is going to suck for him when Facebook crashes and burns...”
Or the dev himself, whichever crashes first.
FB is a hipster circle-jerk -- if you're not putting in evenings from home and constant appearances at the gym rat scrums at 5am you're gonna sink fast.
And Amazon workers have to pee in diapers. Big difference in perks there.