To much modernism bullshit. Six Apart is alright, but (and I can't believe this) I think you jackasses have the best offices of all these people, and (I REALLY can't believe this) I think IAC looks like it has better shit than Google.

Thanks for the IAC video. Wondered what those windows looked like inside looking out.

Having worked at Apple, I can assure you that the love labor accommodations at AC (1-6 Infinite Loop) are not nearly as the same as in some other locations around campus.

Many are worse. Some are better. The majority are cubes.

OK, so they're decent cubes. We have some standards.

I would like to work at beer... em I mean Digg ( little Freudian lapsus ;O) )

yeah but they should show a picture of the parking lot around Digg. scary for you and for your car.

I love how digg and everyone surrounding it are still acting like high schoolers, regarding beer.

Drinking is something you can do in church, how edgy can it be? If they had a big ole pile of blow in the conference room, on the other hand, I'd buy their coolguy bullshit.

Kevin Rose is hardcore!

Unfinished ceilings: For the company that wants to tell its employees "We care enough about you to barely meet building codes."

I've never understood the concept. Sound bounces all over the place. Dust collects up there until it falls down on you in clumps. Requires harsh lighting. If there is a cost saving associated with this (and I'm doubtful) how much can it possibly be? I think it's artsy fartsy run amok.

most fail to seem comfortable

Unfinished ceilings: they look really cool.

Our last office was the classic brick and timbers cool urban loft. We fell in love on sight...Then we discovered the grit that rains down from the cool looking 100 year old timbers.

Our new place still has exposed ducting, because it looks cool and industrial, but the ceiling is wallboard.

@Rick: The beer (and full bar at some offices) isn't about being edgy, but rather hitting the Ballmer Peak. At least that's what we tell ourselves. ;)

Salesforce.com has the best digs : top-shelf scotch selection, mac pro, and 4 24-inch monitors. We also have a Wii and snackbar courtesy of Trader Joes and Cosco! yay salesforce!

I am really not impressed by any of these; the interactive agency is merely OK. Go to any top-tier post-production house, and the studio's design and ammenities will put these all to shame.

"Too much modernism bullsh*t."

Dweezil, I'm raising this glass to you...

I agree. It's all square lines, angles, and glitz.

I worked in a place once that had no cubicles, used blonde wood for everything, and had a meeting room, a storage room, a kitchen or a training room separating every four offices.

Simple, brilliant. You can take your graffiti'd, glass and steel mania, and cute movie quotes, but I'd prefer functional.

I've been to SixApart's offices many-a-time and they seems pretty ordinary to me. Their meeting space is *tiny*.

Googleplex's niceties are all about enticing their workers to stay at work longer - yeah, that's real HAWT!

Valleywag offices look like dump to me... everyone sat at a long table looks cool in photos but gets noisy and goes downhill when people don't clean up or have lots of clutter.

And don't get me started with Digg. Again their offices don't seem all that to me. And who cares about beers at work, I find bars usually have plenty of the stuff - and far better environment to enjoy them in rather than sitting in front of RoR code and an SSH terminal.

I laugh when people call me at 7:30pm on a Friday night with "yo dude we're at work drinking beerz, so cool". I reply "yo dude, we're in *a bar* drinking beerz. kthnkbai!"

Theses offices may LOOK nice, but most of them look like hell to actually WORK in.

What's amazing to me is how much we techies spend on office space compared to, say, the big money banks in NYC. Rows and rows of sweaty traders making a million bucks a minute with three linear feet of deskspace. Every time I'm on one of those floors I pine for my colorless cube.

though have you been in the Bloomberg hq? Googlesque, but better.

brick is so unappealing in san francisco. anyone who watched bricks pop out of buildings in san francisco in the 1989 earthquake (ouch!) wouldn't want to be sitting near a brick wall.

Tocquigny just won this award as well:

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Those two Tocquigny awards couldn't possibly sum up my time there any better. Within the month, if I remember right, of moving into that fancy new office, somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of my coworkers got laid off.

Oh, one theory on why they waited to fire everyone until after the move? We had to do all the packing, cleaning, and prep work for the move ourselves.

ValleyWag-

Maybe #11?

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