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Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what-people-say dept.

From a report: If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky. And not just for the free meals, on-site health care or new-parent benefits. But those things probably factor into the social-networking giant being named the best place to work in 2018 by jobs site Glassdoor. And it's probably been a good experience for a while, seeing how this is the third year in a row Facebook has been atop Glassdoor's list of 100 best places to work. If you don't work at Facebook, there might still be hope for you. Glassdoor said there were 40 newcomers on this year's list, including video game maker Blizzard Entertainment (at No. 28 on the list) and wireless carrier T-Mobile (No. 79). There are also three veterans that have made the list every year since it was introduced 10 years ago, including management-consulting firm Bain & Company (No. 2), search giant Google (No. 5) and Apple (No. 84).

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  1. It's a company town, Joe... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like Bisbee, AZ or Foxconn City.

    Free meals, medical care on site? What's not to like? Pretty soon, they'll put up the housing and you'll never have to leave the company plantation.

    This is why I like living and working in cities -- gives you more random interactions with people, a choice of where to live, work, eat, etc.

    1. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by thegreatbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      Indeed... I definitely need a little bit of structure to my life... but not that much structure!

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    2. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by DickBreath · · Score: 4, Funny

      Will Facebook have the compassion of Foxconn to put up suicide nets to prevent employees from offing themselves?

      Does the employment agreement allow Facebook to harvest an employee's vital organs (assuming their ISP hasn't already gotten them first)?

      Isn't everyone at Facebook a user of PHP? Does PHP show up on a random drug test?

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    3. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The only "perks" I want are a humane amount of vacation time (3-4 weeks, as most of the world gets) and 40 hour weeks. Oh, and good pay. I can find my own social life outside of the company door.

      I don't want to be enticed to live my entire life at work.

    4. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

      UK legal minimum is 5 weeks, and most of Europe is similar. 3 weeks is a joke, not nearly enough.

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    5. Re:It's a company town, Joe... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The cost of living in the US is a joke. And by living we include healthcare.

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  2. Ethics by JohnFen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky.

    And lacking a sense a sense of ethics.

  3. Re:Survivors bias? by Bert64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many people stay at jobs they hate for all kinds of reasons...

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  4. Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
    (b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
    (c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.