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Valleywag
Blah blah, massage therapist, blah blah, mango lassi machine. Yeah, yeah, Google's not really more fun to work at than Yahoo. Yahoo's way cooler:
- All the millionaires are long gone. Or at least they've been promoted enough that you don't have them blasting their audiophile make-you-weep $3000 speakers from the next cubicle.
- It's Hollywood, babe. When's the last time Tom Cruise visited Google and arm-wrestled the CEO?
- No, at Google, you have to say hi to MC Hammer — "No, it's cool, Hammer, you're still popular. What was the line...can't...can't hit this? Touch this? Good line."
- Googlers are so damn uppity. Oh, they act all laid back, but then you're chatting around the cafeteria and you name-drop, like, Arrested Development, and they're all "Oh I don't have a TV." Or if they do, the Tivo's stuck on "Battlestar Galactica."
- You're gonna get fat at Google. There. I said it. You can't control yourself, so the free food will kill you.
- Oh shut up, you would not use the exercycle and the swimming pool. You'd just roll the M&M's cart over to your desk and gorge.
- At Google, you've gotta pretend to like Sergey's t-shirt. Which would be okay if he wasn't always asking, "Does this make me look fat?"
Earlier: Yahoo intern shows why Google is more fun than Yahoo [Valleywag]
Photo: Cruise and Semel arm wrestle [maidelba at Flickr]
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right, right, they're both cooler....of course you forgot to compare the core of the issue facing both of them: both are around silicon valley (median incomes running 70-74k) and neither offers affordable housing of any kind within a nine day walk of either the mountain view (goog) or sunnyvale (yahoo) offices/hq - hence the need to move and create tons of other global offices where employees can actually afford to live, in which case yahoo currently wins hands down...sure elgoog will hire smart people, as will yahoo, but just like the big biotechs in boston, they will learn that the top grads can't afford to stay in the area, and may have little interest in moving to europe or china...btw, yahoo runs a real philanthropic organization, while elgoog is modified 501 to give them unique permissions to build businesses under the auspices of a nonprofit-veneer...so yahoo wins on that front too...
Who cares if you can't afford to live where you work? At Google, it's all about the Googleplex. I can swim in the stationary lap pool, hang at the eatery, and pretend I've got lots of girlfriends. I live in a shitpot apartment with 2 broadband connections.. Now THAT'S cool.
yahoo also had the governator show up last summer
All the perks in the world can't make Mountain View and Sunnyvale cool. While here at the MySpace offices in sunny Beverly Hills, we have sun, sand, cool bands (Method Man was hangin last week), dope events and the most ridiculously hot staff in the tech world (our HR dept. RULES!)...oh yeah, and a pretty happenin' business too.
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