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Author:  CriminallyVu1gar [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:22 am ]
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http://theroxor.com/2009/11/30/15-aweso ... g-offices/
Author:  Wozniak [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:29 am ]
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ive seen the Pixar office before and i would love to go there.
Author:  acrossthelines [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:32 am ]
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Twitter and Yahoo do not belong on that list with the others. lol

The micro offices at Pixar are awesome. Crawling is required to get into them IIRC.
Author:  CriminallyVu1gar [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:39 am ]
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acrossthelines wrote:
Twitter and Yahoo do not belong on that list with the others. lol

The micro offices at Pixar are awesome. Crawling is required to get into them IIRC.


I like crawling. I rather like the word crawling too.
Author:  backthatSASSup [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:29 am ]
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My bf's sister worked at JWT for over 8 years. It's pretty cool her office made it on there.
Author:  Rutledge222 [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:25 pm ]
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Those were pretty sweet haha. I think those type of offices would make anyone wanna work for them. I imagine is a unique experience.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:40 pm ]
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When I moved to California during the .com boom, the datacenter I worked for had multiple kegs of beer on tap in their fully stocked professional kitchen.
Catered personalized lunches every day.
Pool, pinball, arcade games including original pong and space invaders.
Free vending machines stocked with everything from burritos to fiber optic cables.
BBQ's twice a week, free laundry on site, showers and even sleeping quarters if you needed it.

Those were the days.
Author:  Skyline_BNR34 [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:42 am ]
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What happened to them then XC?
Author:  Squanto [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:43 am ]
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Skyline_BNR34 wrote:
What happened to them then XC?


The .com bubble blew up, and hard.

Back then, all you had to do was come up with a compelling business idea, and you'd find a shitton of venture capital to do it. It didn't matter as much to have a PROFITABLE business plan, you just had to have a cool idea.

VC would pour in, companies would start up, have an IPO, and see their stock prices skyrocket. Most had no chance of ever making a profit, and didn't put much thought into long term sustainability.

Over time, the VC's wanted some return on their investments. Interest rates were going up, and money was no longer cheap to borrow. It became harder for these startups to get new cash, and they started dropping. Cash was now something to be valued instead of spent freely.

For the companies that survived, a lot of these perks went away. It just didn't make business sense to spend all that cash on all the extra stuff.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:02 pm ]
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Skyline_BNR34 wrote:
What happened to them then XC?

Heh...well....

Frontier communications became GlobalCenter which got purchased by Globalcrossing which went tits up in a spectacular fashion who then sold their datacenter holdings to Equinix which is when I bailed the company.

During its hayday the place hosted Playboy, American Airlines, Yahoo, one of the first Google installations, Lucas Films, Autotrader and the list goes on.

The last time I drove by their 3 main Sunnyvale Datacenters, 2 of them were empty and up for lease and one was turned into a warehouse.
Author:  fly as hale [ Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:57 am ]
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The Google and Pixar offices are the coolest.
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