@@jdm4087 I was born in a hospital in Google City and raised in Intel City. My grandparents lived in Apple City and my uncle lived in Twitter City, while his then girlfriend lived in Oracle City. My dad worked in Facebook City.
@@enriqueali not at all, all the smartest senior engineers are at top companies. That's why it's hard for smaller companies to keep talent. The young engineers aren't working on the serious stuff.
I feel the same way. Putting their reputation and any negative publicity aside, the building in general seems like a series of cobbled together afterthoughts piled on top one another. There are a lot of design elements in use that seem to clash. Maybe they should take a queue from Apple, and hit the reset button with a new campus designed from the ground up.
If Tom really wanted to. He would be able to knock off Facebook quick. Tom has the money to do it. But i know with all the money he got from selling it, he's to busy traveling the world and doesn't wanna deal with headaches and stress.
That probably would happen if said helpful places could outbid the not-helpful places for talent. Unfortunately, that does not often appear to be the case in current global society. =O
I live in Menlo Park- can confirm the offices are awesome, they host festivals in the parking lot, although the rest of Menlo Park is pretty great too Edit- what the hell do you mean the "Menlo Park" region of Palo Alto, they are entirely different cities
gotta keep you guys from asking questions right? mr nice cop that hosts pot lucks for the community... lol. Stone chipper station, thank you for clarifying my vision. Feed the unsuspecting, mr nice pedo cop smiles... tainted, corrupt. secrecy no more. The truth is coming.
@@missymoonwillow6545 No need to be jealous Missy. In 5-10 years of working hard and not worrying about food, they will retire and live wherever they want.
If Tom really wanted to. He would be able to knock off Facebook quick. Tom has the money to do it. But i know with all the money he got from selling it, he's to busy traveling the world and doesn't wanna deal with headaches and stress.
Open plan offices are worse for productivity and employee satisfaction, they just cost so much less that every company uses them. Team rooms, which are basically 4-12 people in a small office can be effective, if they are all working on the same things, but a huge open plan office where people doing totally different things are together is not good.
@@avgvstvs96 It's a claim brought up by the professor Cal Newport in his book "Deep Work". He argues that the most effective way for a company to handle business is to separate employees by task and give them random encounters through means of a lounge or hallway. He proposed a building titled "The Machine" that explores this topic further and is divided into five rooms: A gallery for inspiration, a lounge for conversation, a library for research, a cubicle for light work, and a sound-proof chamber for deep work. While most of his research is anecdotal, much of his findings on open office spaces have concrete numbers to back them up. Generally you see a dip in productivity that is not recovered when converting to an open floor plan. This dip can be recovered by separating employees.
I live in the Bay Area and Facebook did not “Build” this town. Menlo Park has been home for the rich and tech companies (as the whole Bay Area is) and Facebook just moved in to the old defunked Sun Microsystems campus
the names change, the paint colors come and go, but what is it that goes on BELOW? hmmmmmmmmm now that's the question we should be asking friends. Nasty black water btw. Someone should care enough to put money at that problem.... maybe a bunch of rich pricks can pool in and fix the toxic water issue next to facebook land.
@@tediousmaximus1067 the facebook employees at the campus are the coders and engineers that run the technical operations. People who do the censoring are mostly not full time employees
programming and maintenance. Anyone who has ever worked in IT, knows that what seems like a simple little problem, can spin completely out of proportion and take days or weeks to solve. Mainly because after trying the standard ways of solving the problem, we just resort to trial and error by ticking every possible solution off, one by one. It's tedious and boring as fuck, but it's pretty normal to do. This always applies to programming too.
I enjoyed this video, thank you for making it. I would also be curious to see a video about Apple’s new campus in Cupertino. I have been told “The Spaceship” is a feat of engineering.
some really great ideas... and some wonderful pictures. BUT the whole development is still dominated by a massive concrete highway. The busy highway even goes right along the banks of the waterway, cutting it off from the buildings. It would be really revolutionary for a US company if they started off an open site that had a good rail / metro link or a network of public transport.
As a native of the Bay Area (and someone who delivered mail decades ago in Menlo Park), I thank you for the presentation. A few issues . . . It's possible someone has beat me to this issue. Menlo Park is a separate city in a different county from Palo Alto. It has its own history of technology. In other words, it is not the "Menlo Park region of Palo Alto." I agree with some of the other comments about open space - in my experience, it looked good on paper but was not great when it was the only thing available. As for your overuse of the buzzword "collaboration," the less said the better. I'm truly not sure how that word became so popular. The need for public transportation is obvious and I hope you address that subject in other videos. The campus is perhaps 4 or 5 miles from the Caltrain station in the center of Menlo Park. A short distance to bike in good weather but only if one is comfortable on high-traffic roads. Has FB done anything to provide a reasonable solution to the matter?
its all corrupt and all restricted by creepy underground crap. As above, so below. Labs, all kinds of shady government research projects going on, right below the busy streets, right below everyone's noses. Mocking even you and your "authority on Menlo Park History". AWESOME MAN! I'm born in San Mateo, lived all over the bay area, moved the hell away and am better for it. My perspective has been enhanced thanks to some much unwanted first hand life experience. The bay Area is TAINTED TO THE CORE. No love from me. Not since deep state operatives came in and CORRUPTED THE WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, has any city's history been valued. Wealth, power, secrecy, clubs, societies, underground networks and training your population of underground workers to lie to common folk who have not a clue..... that's the bay area as it will be remembered. The birth place of mind control and it's use in media technologies, film, music.... thanks so much. Can't wait to see the laser light shows, the ufo's and more deadly wild fires and power outages. martial law comes. Hope you're ready people.
@@drgato5231 yes they will.. Facebook and insta have became a part of the life of people.. And the growth of internet usage is increasing massively in developing nations.. And the first thing they do after having a personal phone is install facebook,instagram and some major apps.. And no one is yet in the competition of these social networking companies....
Mark Pine it’s used as a brainwashing tool by the left and right. Facebook and other social media outlets are going to destroy our society! Brainwashed propaganda puppets are more dangerous to our society than any terrorist organization is, illegal alien, or scary dictators. People really underestimate the power of MEMES!
Baby boomers and the 80+ crowd, conservatives who whine how censored they are and then they start 50 thousand pro- Confederate groups on the site and claim they're preserving history.
I've worked for all the big SV companies. I found FB's HQ to be off putting on the outside and strictly regulated, while Google [alphabet] was the most open on the outside and very easy to deal with corporate. I actually even worked at the old Sun Microsystem campus many times. [we build corporate TV news chat show sets and oversized 'fun things' for them all].
I was lucky enough to come here a couple of times a year cause my friend's mom worked at facebook and it was really fun, there was a kitchen/food every 50 feet with unlimited food and in the main kitchen they had a huge buffet that served breakfast, lunch and dinner with a kitchen staff of 25+, they also had a whole ice cream store with (free) ice cream everything was free if I didn't mention it and there was a huge arcade with lots of machines and games on them to play. Also, the new west building had a landscaped roof which you could walk on with a view of the marsh.
Excellent report B1M, another great video! Please take this conversation up another level by connecting more discussions of planning and transportation with your earlier detailed explanations of BIM and AIM for operations!
I occasionally have that dream where I am back at University, had missed most of my last semester classes of my last year...had never taken a midterm nor submitted a paper....not a dream, a nightmare! This reminds me of that! LOL
This is the future of the working environment and it’s inviting. I still find it strange though however that big companies are now heading out of cities and away from skyscrapers. What will become of the cities and towns? For example we’re seeing high streets emptying as a result of the internet (in the UK). Is this the next stage? Firms moving to rural locations to move onto business campuses?
Actually, a little google search will tell you that Facebook leased office spaces in two new skyscrapers in San Francisco, CA. 181 Fremont and the Park Tower.
I don't think "cult". A new homogenization of existence to accelerate standards of living. Don't allow new mediums to become captive to pecimism (spelling? I am NOT going to carry around a dictionary NOR rely on spell-check!).
wise observation. they put malls out of business, small family businesses like cafe's and dry cleaning... hell even domino's suffer's because of facebook. So zuckborg plans to live out the apocalypse in Tahoe. Just thought ya'll should know where to go to seek righteous payback when the illusion fades and our kids realize facebook isn't real life.
I don't really use FB so much anymore, and although I do empathize with some of this threads negative comments; what FB was able to build (according to this video) is MIND BOGGLING!! so I sort of get it, but I cant help but be amazed
Point is you are stupid if you think that any of your information is private. People can find out everything from where and when you spend money, to your sleeping pattern, to everyone you are in contact with via phone and computer. The list goes on. And its only getting worse. There is no waking up or reacting to any of it. It has been ramping up since before we were born. The only thing that will stop it is some cataclysmic event. It wont be horrible within our lifetime. But it likely will within a generation or two.
Menlo Park isn't a district of Palo Alto. In fact, they are separate but adjacent municipalities. Palo Alto in in Santa Clara County, while Menlo Park is across the creek/county border in San Mateo County.
What are they going to do about the traffic? That whole 84 stretch is ridiculous for the sheer volume of vehicles per day. Plus, the rent is pushing longtime residents out and making transit into the surrounding neighborhood unbearable...
I don't really use it anymore except for the groups. Most of the people on my friend list don't even respond to stuff I post on my wall, so why even bother posting. I've stopped posting and stopped commenting on other people's stuff too. Waste of time.
I keep seeing videos that equate countries GDP (gross domestic product), which is a countries overall annual production, with companies overall value. They are very different measures. Facebooks annual revenue for last year was about $28 billion I think. On the other hand, if you look at Saudi Arabia's assets in it's sovereign wealth fund and the oil company Aramco it has assets worth far in excess of it's $500 bn valuation of facebook
I find it useful as a point of reference for scale, though I agree it is pretty abstract. Here's how I think of it: the ~80 million population of Turkey do enough work over a year to produce enough economic value to buy Amazon. Or put another way, if I owned all of Amazon and then sold it, I could basically buy all the output of Turkey for about a year.
the land of mockery, the club hub of jokesters and clowns. jesters with lady delights enjoyed out of the wife's sight, what these boys play with is far from the light. God See's All. He's coming for YOU ALL.
@@kartikchauhan1327 Because they are every bit as amoral and irresponsible as they appear from the outside. Apart from a small fraction of engineers I've met convinced they can change things from the inside, the vast majority of people even at the engineering level just try and sweep the incredible responsibility they have under the rug in order to boost their teams' metrics. That's the tldr anyways. They cause more damage to people's capacity for critical thinking and social cohesion than tobacco companies did to people's lifespans trying to pretend smoking doesn't cause cancer, as an analogy.
@@markhaus thanks for writing your thoughts. i get requests from FB recruiters all the time and this is why i haven't reciprocated. anyways, as i get older, the less i want to work in a place that is designed in this way to drive you to want to live at work and work longer hours and where your ideas are lost in the sea of software developers surrounding you. i don't know if they have Amazon's backstabbing culture but that would also be a major concern when in any highly competitive workplace. anyways it's so expensive to live out there; i make way more remotely than i would there, where cost of living would take a huge chunk out of my salary (even as a senior developer) - my brother-in-law bought a house with his wife nearby and it's a tiny craftsman they had to pay $1.2m for and still invest hundreds of thousands of dollars just to make it livable. in my 20s i probably wouldn't have minded but now, i want to work where i'm heard and can contribute more readily, and not work for a company that has little-to-no moral direction. my buddy's sister-in-law works for Facebook up in Seattle and she sounds really happy there but she's in marketing so i'm not sure if they have the same kind of soul-searching a developer would have on the subject haha.
It's definitely NOT a quiet corner of Menlo Park. It's next to Highway 84 between Dumbarton Bridge and Highway 101 and is super busy during commute hours with cars going between Highway 880 and Highway 101.
Good design but it kind of lacks consideration for the bay area housing crisis. Great, people are happy at work but they're pissed off driving to work or driving home because of traffic. The whole affordable housing is a start but unless it is high density then it won't do much. I think these tech companies need to start pioneering new forms of housing structures, like underground housing. You could build up but so many people in that area would be in the "don't block my view" crowd that it isn't really feasible to build up. Underground housing might be an interesting concept.
please block my view of smog please!! underground housing would work if we didn't' live on the bay. we must build up or water may seep in. especially if there's liquefaction from earthquake.
Then live in a house vehicle, like a converted bus or small home or converted camper. That's what I would do. I don't want a big house and I love the idea of waking up at work. Coffee, shower, I'm here. Ta-da.
As cool as this is, centralizing a giant company (or industry: San Fran) has loads of terrible implications. It pushes up housing prices, basically makes the surrounding community completely dependent on the company. Much like the mining towns of the last century: when these companies inevitably go belly up, it means so does the whole town, the whole community. And it *is* strange to compare tech companies to such lofi industries, because tech companies of all people should be the most capable of spreading out their offices.
Major companies have yet to catch with studies showing the significant downsides of open space environments. Are guys aware of major projects shifting away from this traditional structure?