"Facebook Inc employees are the youngest and most satisfied, and yet the most stressed among workers at big US technology companies.
The social networking giant also has the lowest median age, 26, as well as the highest portion of female workers, 33 per cent, among nine of the US IT industry's top companies.
At Facebook, workers make about $59,100 to start, 49 per cent more than the national average. They get a 13 per cent premium over what employees would earn at similar positions at other companies, the survey found." [June 2011] Source
....."You won’t find any cubicles in Facebook’s new 150,000 square-foot office in Palo Alto, California. The interior is wide open, with a warehouse look. The design firm Studio o+a consulted employees to find out their expectations about the work environment and what they desired their space to look like. This led to many different designs across departments, based on their individual needs and tastes. Many of the walls were left blank, in order to encourage employees to further customize their space. The overall feel is casual and relaxed, with plenty of areas to unwind away from a computer."..... [Sept 2009] Source
Not saying that I wouldn’t love to work in a place like that.
However, my long-term career plans would never be to bank on being there for more than 3 years.
Facebook is no super company. They need to generate real cash off of all of this fluff sooner or later, and there simply is no way they can.
....."You won’t find any cubicles in Facebook’s new 150,000 square-foot office in Palo Alto, California. The interior is wide open, with a warehouse look. The design firm Studio o+a consulted employees to find out their expectations about the work environment and what they desired their space to look like. This led to many different designs across departments, based on their individual needs and tastes. Many of the walls were left blank, in order to encourage employees to further customize their space. The overall feel is casual and relaxed, with plenty of areas to unwind away from a computer."..... [Sept 2009] I worked for Digital Equipment Corp. When the group I was in built a new facility we had weekly "Quality of Worklife" meetings to design the new office areas. Within 10 years DEC was swirling in the toilet. Not that there's any real comparison but at least DEC made something, not some flash-in-the-pan social software.