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Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US
An anonymous reader writes: Career website Glassdoor today released its eighth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year. Airbnb was picked as the number one tech company to work for in 2016, displacing Google. Airbnb didn't even make the list last year. Google, meanwhile, placed sixth in 2013 and 2014, and first in 2015. As with Google last year, it's worth noting that Airbnb hasn't just taken the top tech company spot: It is the top company overall.
... give out prizes to industrial leaders in the race to the absolute rock bottom.
Airbnb allows normal people to earn money by renting out spare rooms, at the expense of big corporate hotel chains. It is silly to say they are a sign of rampant corporate domination. They are the opposite. They are an enabler for the common people.
Disclaimer: I have been both a room renter and a room rentee on Airbnb. It was a good deal in both directions.
Either you are lying, incompetent, or things have changed recently (I've never used airbnb, so I've no idea what their policies used to be). Go to airbnb.com, click signup and you are presented with 4 signup options:
Facebook
Google (not Google+, just Google...lots of websites use google authentication, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one that required Google+)
American Express
Email
I tried to rent a place through Airbnb. The process went like so:
Me: I'm looking for a room for next tuesday.
Airbnb: What's your Facebook login?
Me: Do I look like an idiot?
Airbnb: How about your G+ account?
Me: I must look like an idiot.
So that was that. I haven't given them a second chance.
Not that it's necessary to "sign up" to search for a room, it's not, but you must have missed the "Sign up with Email" option.
It's not very visible, but it's below the idiot-proof Facebook button and below the idiot-proof G+ button.