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Main lesson I took from this video: If you wanna do something crazy, do it young and do it before you have kids! Job and kids will eat up all of your time!
@@myhops Stupid. Men should get married. So your family won't be rolling in their graves when they're gone. But that is most Asian people's mindsets tho. Western people don't care about family that much, so they can have more freedom in their lives.
@@norpriest521 It's not that if you should get married automatically guarantees that you'll get married. Some people try to ignore this part of life if they're not having success in it =)
Its not really ironic if you consider how common it is for people not to like doing their job when they aren't on the job. Chefs don't like cooking at home. Porn stars don't like sleeping around outside of work. Mafiosos live in very safe neighborhoods. Dance instructors don't like to go social dancing. I can keep going on and on.
"I am at Google, people will probably think I am a weirdo..asking random people random questions" Lmao Bro that's what they have built their whole company upon :'D
@@brentdan68 Actually I don't have a phone, I think they're poisonous, they disrupt the mind, and they emit EMF that gives you cancer, so I have a very good ***king reason don't I?
there’s a RU-vidr that goes by TechLead and he used to work for Facebook until they fired him for being honest about some things on RU-vid. I think that’s what most of those people are afraid of.
I've lived in the SV for all my life. This seems pretty spot on. Although the sample size here is biased towards tech employees & older mature folks with families, there's alot of suburbs, hiking trails, and traffic. I used to go to the climbing gym until traffic died down, go out to eat, head home, rinse and repeat. If you really want some night life, you can go to downtown SJ or what I did, drive to SF and drive back down (traffic on the way back is sometimes 3hrs).
@@GagandeepSingh-np1zr I live in Vermont, in the summer season I do a lot of mountain biking, keeps me fit, get to see cool places and meet people outside work that share the same interests, in the winter I snowboard, and same thing there too with the people and places, so no matter what season it is I have at least one thing I love and 2 groups of people to hang out with
@@trevhaas96 That is cool man. I always wanted to do Skiing in snow, but here in India there is only one place where one can do so, ie Kashmir and it is gripped with terrorism. Otherwise I would have opted for 25 day course. India is pretty bad if you want to do recreational stuff as too much population/pollution with lots of issues and not much cool places. That is one reason I want to come to west. I am myself Software developer, I also want to go abroad but not want to end up like these people in video, just want to hang out at cool places, even with one tenth of their salary, at least will inhale good quality air. Ah Man..
It really depends on what you like to do. there are many places to hike, and it being in calfornia means there are a lot of cool national parks you could visit. I think it's just that people want to relax and spend time with their family after work or on the weekends.
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LOL - it's kinda true. I've been in Silicon Valley for 33 years now - after work, you either work out, do a quick hike, play tennis, basketball, go out to eat ... it's no different than any other place. I mean, who has time after work but to relax and kick back? Now, weekends are a different story - we go to San Francisco or Santa Cruz or Carmel ... ride our bike across Golden Gate bridge, hang out at Stanford, Alviso ... go boating, swim ... there are tons of stuff to do. What makes this possible is near perfect weather almost every day of the year - that's the key. In short, people that can afford to live here - stay. Those that can't, complain about traffic, cost, congestion ... and move. That's the bottom line. Oh, another thing - if you know what you're doing, you can become a multi millionaire extremely quickly. For instance, I can safely say that every single homeowner here in silicon valley that purchased their house more than 5 years ago - are probably a millionaire.
@@trinayangogoi590 - Every individual is different - so I can only speak for myself. But in my opinion - life is lot sweeter when money is no longer an issue ... I wake up every morning knowing that I can quit whenever I want, work if I want, relax if I want ... knowing that I never have to worry about money again. It also helps if you enjoy your work - I love programming - I'd do it for free. So if you love what you're doing - money is secondary. If you get rich - that's just icing. But at the end of the day, being happy is all that matters. But I can only speak for myself - and growing up poor - not knowing if my parents were going to have a roof over our head ... that computer science degree for me was a lifesaver. And when I paid off my house and had hit million dollars in my savings account - the stress that was lifted off my shoulder was indescribable. At minimum, I knew me and my family were never going to be homeless. Having said that - money does not guarantee happiness - however, LACK OF MONEY almost always guarantees *UNHAPPINESS*. So in my opinion, it is imperative you at least have enough to exist.
@@facebooksmith1269 I don't need a million To exist. Besides where I'm at, I make more than quarter a million a year,, from my retail shop and car wash/ repair shop. I do agree that money plays a vital role, but I can also assure that it can be made from anywhere, needn't it be from a place where it's only work 12 hrs a day. After I did my masters in CS, I joined SVIS. I expected it to be a 9-5, ending at 5. Obviously I was wrong. After work hours, our manager assigned small groups of us some stupid shits and we have to submit it a day or two. Overtime is Soo common in their culture that most of us would stay at office till 8 or 9. That's 3-4 days a week. The people weren't honest and very secretive. All they care about is money and more money. Relationships feel soo dull and selfish. Was too much for me to handle.
@@trinayangogoi590 - you don't need million to exist - but I'm talking about if you have no other source of income. With couple million in the bank, you know that working is an option. Freedom is what you're striving for - if you can get that at $1.00 - that's good too. And what you say about SV is true - I've been programming for over 3 decades and I've been with many start ups - we practically live at the company. Food is brought in, in house Gym, any ethnic food you want - it's like a family. Sometime you hit it big, sometime you don't. What you're forgetting is that lot of these people (including myself) - would do this for free. This is what we *WANT* to do. Money is just bonus. On top of that, we have near perfect weather, diversity, any type of ethnic food we want, access to surfing, hiking, skiing ... I remember our company used to send us to London for lunch and fly back the next day. Obviously, there are many ways you can make money. I made $100K today just by shorting the market (so far - still 10 minutes till closing) - tomorrow, I'll put some call options and I'll probably make another $100K or so - so money isn't the issue. Once you have couple million in the bank - it's easy to make money. It's getting the first million that's hard. And at that point, it's about creating and having fun - and SV gives you is an environment where you can have fun in near perfect temperature 365 days a year. For instance, right now, I'm coding while overlooking Santa Cruz board walk. It's just a different lifestyle. Not everyone is cut out for it - you obviously were not. Nothing wrong with that - you found success the another way. As long as you're having fun - that's all that matters.
so they are living like 0.3 of their life and 0.7 they waste to get money to be able to live that tiny 30%? I'm sorry if its not 20%work 80%do what I wanna do, I dont want this life thank you very much. I wont be extending my trial 18years
Thanks for putting this video together! I have been in in the Valley many times for work, and although as a visitor it is such a thrilling place, as someone living there... I can see people falling into a very limited monotony. Unless you are a huge fan of open-space activities (surfing, hiking, flying...) you are going to end up staying at home, because everything is so painfully far from everything else... Not to mention commuting!! 😫 I am based in London and, despite being far from perfect, I live in a flat with a giant garden, I can get the Tube and be in the office in 30 minutes. And when you finish work, you are in the centre at a walking distance of Soho, Fitzrovia, King's Cross... On the weekends you can either stay in London or visit some lovely places around (Brighton, Bath, Canterbury, Cambridge, Oxford...) and if you want to do something a bit more special you can get a train to Paris or Amsterdam or fly to anywhere else in Europe in 1-4 hours. Regardless how much money you have, you still need the time and the opportunities at hand to make something minimally unordinary with your evenings and weekends.
As a SV tech worker, I can tell you a lot of us just go home and sleep after work. We're too exhausted to do anything, and the traffic is horrible! Some of us have to commute hours to work because housing is affordable outside of SV. The weekends are when we have fun, there's games to go, beaches, parks, hiking, etc. But even then some of us are working on weekends night or day.
@@velzing22 are they gonna survive till that point? What if you will die this week, you never know. There should be ballance in life for every day. They dont have that. I mean its a failure of human race, we are human resources in hands of giant corporations
Bitcoin price has been fluctuating lately and it's very frustrating to those who buy and hold.. The good thing about this space is that you can buy the dips and put them into active trades while waiting for a pump in price because it is inevitable. Price will go up and down but the market has been so profitable despite price up and down. As for me I have been trading with a professional trader who trades on my behalf and has the required skills and experience and it has been profiting.
It's obvious a lot of people will give up on crypto trading and investment due to the dip but you all will remain poor if you don't take risks and know that no successful and wealthy personality made it to the top with just a one income stream or without risks.
I felt I have successfully made it in life with a good paying job but I hate it. I definitely need to get off my ass and start giving this side hustle and investment a chance. Thank for the motivation
I appreciate your boldness. Hopefully even after thinking this through you still continue to ask bold questions in this bold way. It’s sometimes bc ppl think too much that we never get to see these kind of videos :)
I laughed at the real footage part. Subbed! Also, in my experience, most techies spend their time the same way as shown in videos. Boba, watching videos, or working out.
Wow, I work in tech in the SF Bay Area Peninsula for a decade now. I'm surprised to hear they don't have anything to do after work. Granted, I also live in SF where there are a lot more options compared to the South Bay. But still, there's NHL, NFL, and MLS when it comes to sports. There are also a few notable dance clubs and a casino there. There's a lot of good restaurants there too. When it comes to live music, there's definitely not many options compared to SF, but there are concerts at the Levi's Stadium, SAP Center, and Shoreline when big artists come to town. But SF is really not that far away. I've met a lot of SV techies at shows I've attended in the City. I do have to say, and someone already commented on this, Bay Area traffic sucks, especially around the Facebook, Google, and Apple campuses. Many live far from where they work; some even across the Bay. Once you spend an hour in traffic to get home, you really don't want to go out again. Some leave work late to let the traffic subside before they head home so it they really only have a few hours before they need to go to bed and get ready for the next day. So it's understandable it doesn't seem like to have much to do after work. It's more like they don't feel like doing anything aside from recouping after a long day.
What do people actually expect them to do after work? I mean I think the things they said pretty much applies anywhere else. What kind of ideal after work life are you guys thinking about?
This exactly, people seem to have unrealistic expectations or delusional self-standards from watching too much netflix. I'd say the lives of these SV people are pretty solid, peaceful and respectable
I'll help save you guys 9 minutes: They do nothing after work, cuz work never stops in Silicon Valley. They try very hard to come up with something LOL. But hey at least they making hella BANK. Oh wait rent and basic living costs just called... :(
I was born and raised in San Jose and I'm really not sure the expectation here. Its like any other suburb, and there's major sampling bias here (numerous parents who I don't think would do any different if they lived in say, Arizona). I left to LA and moved back to the Bay area both living in SF and San Jose. Both are better than places I went to college in New England. There's stuff to do - bars, events, etc. But people are lazy and downplay going out to eat, hanging with friends, etc. If your desire is to step out of your apartment and be surrounded by bars, street fairs, etc just hitting you in the face you need a city, and Silicon Valley isn't that.
Lets not forget that you pay a ridiculous amount for cost of living. Even people with 6 figure salaries are living in single bedroom apartments. San Jose and San Francisco also has an atmosphere of cocky elitist bootlickers, and those who don’t fit that profile are just barely getting by or aren’t from the area. Many locals are not friendly at all. The housing prices are driven up because wealthy buyers from China are sandbagging everyone by dropping cash, upfront payments to most of the homes that are worth buying, but only renting them out to locals. I lived in several cities around the US throughout my life, including Chicago. The bay area is by far the worst.
been in SV for few months now....majority of the demographic is super smart and very career oriented. But majority of them also have a giant stick up their but....so your video kinda proved my observation..
Developers In China: work 9:00am - 9:00pm. take subway to home for 1 hour , have a rest and take a shower for 2hour, go to bed at 12:00am , wake up at 7:30am, prepare for work and eat breakfast for 30min, spend 1 hour on subway to office. start a new cycle.😂
I've been a consultant at one of these companies for several years now. For the most part during pre-Covid times, many of the bigger companies provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between on-site. So after work many FTEs (Full Time Employees) and TVCs (Temps, Vendors, Contractors) stay after the usual business hours to eat dinner, participate in hobby/cultural organization activities, or continue working. I enjoyed playing at the onsite arcade (DDR and zombie shooting games were my fave), and I would have joined a Quidditch team if it weren't for my bad knee. If you watch 'The Internship' from 2013, it's ALMOST the real thing at that company... but add doggos in the office and the constant complaining about commuting and traffic. Speaking of traffic, for many of us who have families and/or just want to get home ASAP, depending on where one lives in the Bay Area, it may take upwards of 1-2 hours on the commute back home (sounds painful, I know). There are some people I know of that commute 3-4 hrs if they live out in the Central Valley (which is East of the Bay Area). On Thursday or Friday nights, others choose to go out to nearby bars, pubs, restaurants to eat, drink, and socialize while waiting for traffic to die down.
Silicon Valley or not, most people do the same thing after work: Exercise, eat, netflix/youtube, side projects, reading. Stop trying to make yourself look like you're not them.
Mostly people living here are foreigners, they don't know where or how to have fun and you're right I spend my free time farming, growing my green vegetables. LOL 🍸🥤🥂🥃🍺
They know how and where to have fun. But if their livelihood on this country depends on them keeping the job from the company that's sponsoring them, you can understand why they put so much focus into their jobs.
I was born and raised in Silicon Valley, but it was called Santa Clara Valley then. This video just adds to a long list of reasons why I am glad I moved out of there 25 years ago.
@@muskrat3291 same here. grew up in silicon valley but couldn't take it any more (as of recently). too crowded. too much traffic. the wild fires were getting too close for comfort. not to mention how CA turned from a beautiful state into a veritable dung-hole thanks to our politicians.
Dude, Supermatt, I'm from Silicon Valley and I did not appreciate what you did to portray this region in a way that makes it appear as we're in a desert in the middle of nowhere. Besides the natural beauty of countless trails, parks, lakes, universities (Stanford, Santa Clara, SJSU, etc) there are numerous museums, amazing restaurants, breweries, galleries, etc. You also failed to mention that we are less than an hour away from the coast with numerous coastal towns and beaches. Additionally, we are also less than 45 miles away from one of the most popular cities in the world San Francisco, and less than 90 miles away from world-renown Napa Valley and some of the best wineries in the world. Besides not getting prior approval from the companies whose campuses you visited, you come across as someone who doesn't know what they are talking about or doing. Try again, better luck next time.
@@sotam8938 Lmfao, people literally say that about any and every city, if that is their point of view. If they spend enough time there, and do all there is to do, they will say there's nothing to do. Someone else coming into SV will say there's a lot to do: great food, lots of social events, arguably the best wine outside of Europe, nature walks, etc. You know the saying, "the grass is always greener on the other side"? That applies here. You move out of the SV to somewhere else, enjoy what the other places have to offer, and you'll get bored just like you did with the SV. The only outlier is if your preference is what SV can't offer you, and that's totally alright. It's not for everyone. But to say there's nothing to do, is completely subjective. I think there's nothing to do in Arkansas, but someone who like to own large swaths of land and the activities that come with it will disagree with me, and that's all good.
@@rousseau327 No. There's nothing to do when compared to actual cities like New York City. Compared to New York City, the entire bay area/san francisco is a cruel joke. This place is really overrated. If you are a guy who is straight and is single, go to New York City. There's a lot of opportunities there too.
@@2RosarioVampire lol, you don’t think that’s biased? Someone else would call NY a never sleeping shithole, while another would call it the young adult’s paradise. You’re not getting my point at all. By your definition, there’s no where else in the US where there would be “something to do”
Love your content! Except for the part when you called people out for saying NO to the interview. I mean, no one has no obligation to agree to the interview or whatsoever, so you should get this straight before your next interview in the future. Cheers and keep up the good work!
I worked most of the BIG companies in Silicon Valley from 1995 thru 2005 and most people are family oriented and spend most of there time on campus working 8 to 12 hour shifts. Some work 4 days a week 12 hour days and some just work 9 to 5 , 7 days a week. But most are exhausted after work mainly from commuting and it takes people a day of rest before they want to go out and do normal activities. Most people shop online during breaks so they dont have to shop after work. Many people work week end too and study on week ends and are on call so they have no free time. What was most exhausting was commuting to and from work. About 1 hour in traffic each way. But at off commute hours it only takes 15 minutes to get to work. But it is tough if you have kids. Because you have to work with a sitter , childcare and school and homework and feeding the kids. And all the problems that can come with raising children. It is tough. Also you have to be a Millionaire today to own a house in Silicon Valley.
These sound like typical answers. I was wondering what you were expecting. If you were interviewing someone who lived near Disneyland, would you expect them to say I go to Disneyland after work each day? Of course not. I work in I.T. myself and live and work in another valley (the San Fernando Valley). After work I might grab a bite to eat, or just go home. When I get home, I don't immediately go stare into a computer again. I do enough of that at work. :/
Personally I've been in the Bay Area for about 3 years now -- it's basically commute --> work --> commute --> gym --> home --> sleep --> repeat haha. But since a ton of people are WFH now (like me), I have time to make RU-vid videos/watch Netflix/etc.
I used to be up at 6:00 every morning to take the bus over an hour each way to Sunnyvale, but I haven't been up before 8 now in weeks. I don't think most people will go back to commuting that far every day unless there's no other options. It's been nice working from home.
Most of these companies are situated in locations that are primarily business parks. Not much other than company buildings. There are plenty of urban and residential areas 5 minute drive away
Worked at Google, lived in Mountain View. Nothing fun to do as a single guy except maybe hit a bar in Palo Alto. Got outta there as soon as I could, most boring 8 months of my life.
This video encapsulates the failures, the do-nothingers. They sit around and watch Netflix, regardless of their setting, the do-nothingers will continue to do nothing. I am in Silicon Valley, but my setting does not define me. I am still able to build/launch/grow without living in the Valley, granted, I might not have access to as much capital since top VCs are here, but I will still fight, tooth and nail, to succeed.
"What do I do in my spare time? Fucking nothing! I come home, plug into electricity slot and stare at the wall all night waiting for my batteries to recharge" (c) Silicone Valley resident, 2065.
have their own flavors of FOMO's and then some incidentally watch this video and read such comment and then do a reply... with some others reading it. See did something different =}
If you pay attention in minute 3:35 the woman saying "Micheladas" because in Mexico City it is a drink with beer also some ingredients like lemon, salt, sweetie sauces, etc. Sounds weird but a lot of people love them.
I see absolutely nothing wrong in asking strangers for an interview. That's crazy. It's simple, if they don't want to speak they just either ignore you or decline. Now if you are on Google's campus obviously that's their property, but they can ask you to leave if they want.
