Every Tech Startup is Exactly the Same 

I have and always do try to talk my younger engineers from falling for the "startup" horseshit. I remember years ago, a young engineer from our team left to work for Living Social on the east coast. He was all about "free salad" and other startup horseshit. He called once to check in with us one evening. Mind you, he was several hours ahead of us on the east coast. So a bunch of us happened to be hanging out when he called and right out of the gate he seems super proud of the fact and says "I'm just drinking a beer ....at work!". To which I reply...."We're drinking beer...at a bar.", in a very sardonic tone. Point being....yeah..they want your sould 24/7 and try to buy you off with nonsense like office scooters and free lunch.

The startup "scene" wastes so much money on one-upping each other on office "coolness" and not much of it actually improves employee health, happiness, or performance. In fact, the overkill inclusions like game rooms, nap rooms, showers, and beer aren't even intended to keep you happy. They're deseigned to keep you at work. Like, to keep you physically inside the building. They don't want you to leave. They try to take away all your excuses to leave so they can have you working 70 hours a week. Then they make these office tour videos to make their lackeys feel like they're supposed to smile about it and say out loud that they love working there.

a tech startup: “hey can i borrow your homework?” also a tech startup: “yeah but you have to change some things up so we both don’t get in trouble ok?”

actually the standup room is a pretty damn good idea LMAO

those tech entrepreneurs sure are original thinkers with independent creative minds, oh boy!

"We're family." The red flag is as big as the whole American Continent.

The one that had the showers creeped me out, why in the hell would you ever want to shower at work. Actual nightmare material.

Not one mention of sales, productivity, or customers. Oh, and about being disruptive? Those open office plans are so disruptive that employees put on headphones to block out their co-workers. How's that for being collaborative?

Holy shit I can't imagine just how terrible an open office plan is. An absolute barrage of noise and distractions all day

Hilarious. The most pathetic was the woman who seemed excited about being "steps away from a starbucks". But the disruptive bros are pretty bad too. They've probably never made anything in their lives.

Can't believe anyone would get hyped about starbucks.

The office as a jungle gym mentality is not about productivity. It is about pandering to a group of employees who lack focus.

100% smoke and mirrors b.s. and heaven for time wasters pretending to do real work all day 🙄 dumb investor money is one thing but too many of us end up stuck with these types of people turning companies into expensive underperforming circuses lacking competitive edge and staying power…

OPEN COLLABORATIVE SPACE

"collaboration" "family" "disrupt" "culture"

My goal is to start a business that will never be referred to as a startup and which instead of being innovative and disruptive, will offer quality products for very fair prices. Employees will not work in an open floor plan office or any office at all. The losses associated with the complete lack of collaboration (due to not having an open floor plan office) will be offset by the gains of completely eliminating all distractions created by noisy coworkers. The cost savings of not needing to pay rent on a cool space in a hip neighbourhood and not needing to pay employees enough to cover their commuting costs and justify the impact on their quality of life created by commuting 2 hours every day to and from a cool space in a hip neighbourhood (or the costs of paying to living in a hip neighbourhood), and the savings of not buying arcade games, foosball tables, ping pong tables, pool tables, shuffle board tables, VR equipment and trendy furniture, not needing to pay the water bill for showers, and not offering beer on tap, meals and free coffee will allow the business to sell quality products at very fair prices. Anyone who refers to other employees as "family" will be immediately fired. Employees will be incentivized to work no more than 32 hours a week (to ensure that they contribute their best possible work every day and never suffer from burn out) and will be paid for working 40 hours a week.

tfw working from home for about 3 months now and have the same if not better productivity than in the fucking open office. Makes you think.

We have a Starbucks nearby and awesome video games, but no African Americans or Hispanics work here because, like, that’s just too disruptive.

Creepy. Totally reminds me of the book/movie The Circle. (Or Circle, I forget).

Thankfully, I'm different with my startup as I'm uniquely disruptive in X industry I am in.

Plastic world!! might as well claim originality and fade into obscurity...

Your art is beautiful. Thank you for the mirror.

3:05 "So sometimes meetings drag on, and you know what? They don't last as long when people have to stand the whole time." But I prefer standing to sitting.🤷‍♂️

Oh god this is too real

I used to work in an open pit to, in the bowels of hell.

They only good strategy is standing meeting, it works in my experience too to reduce meeting time. The rest is a sort of mask to hide how little most people are payed, how little they have a democratic say, and how much they hate the open office layouts (People calling while you are next to them is realy annoying, forces my to put on headphones to even semi conentrate) It is like how more PR bullshit they have in there videos, how more exploative aspects they have to hide stemming from corparate hierachy.

Open floor plans then covid

Since when is Soulcycle a "local" attraction???

How fucking tone deaf is a sign in a million(s) dollar start up office that says “will work for food”

99 percent are all out of business

this is hilarious (as an ex google ex facebook engineer)

This is so vaporwave

Umm...Why is there a "Secret Willy Wonka" room ? 🤔

I wonder how many of these startups are out of business now.

Uhm, where's the reasonable accomodations for that "Stand up room"? Startups sure don't sound very ADA compliant.

These people are disgusting

I can’t stand hearing so many of these people talk

Those stuffs are for ads & promo only.

That Willy Wonka room was kinda cool ngl. Besides that though, yea not impressive

Why don't they just pay people more?

Everything in this video is extinct now. Those open office layouts will probably never exist again.

Disruptive video 🤓

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Where are all those videos from? Could you give me a link please?

Remote work from home…thanks COVID