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6 Responses to “Life@Google”

1. 1 Jim
   Apr 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

   Maybe it’s the hereditary Calvanist in me, but I find this bizarre and obsecenely extravangant. The culture implied by this will be hard to shift when, as ineveitably it does, times get tough, and costs have to be cut. This hardly encourages lean thinking. I couldn’t work here.

2. 2 Raf
   Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

   Looks like a boutique hotel. You wouldn’t want to go home really.

   We have table football and tennis but otherwise its pretty much 1970s chic at the Metawealth centre

3. 3 Ben Kepes
   Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   which reminds me raf - when do i get an invite for lunch at the meta-plex …..you mean you don’t have a corporate chef already? sacre bleu - what good that NZTE grant after all….

4. 4 raf
   Apr 5th, 2008 at 12:18 am

   We do have a chef…Branton! We had a board meeting today and Branton cooked for us all afterwards. Organic burgers and steamed greens.

   Invite on the way for lunch!

5. 5 Ben Kepes
   Apr 5th, 2008 at 8:18 am

   Organic burgers and steamed greens? You guys are a little google-esqe after all!

6. 6 Falafulu Fisi
   Apr 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am

   Jim said…
   Maybe it’s the hereditary Calvanist in me, but I find this bizarre and obsecenely extravangant. The culture implied by this will be hard to shift when, as ineveitably it does, times get tough, and costs have to be cut.

   Absolutely agreed with Jim here. One just has to look at the fall of Google’s stock price from its peak value (~$700) during the final quarter of last year (2007) to today’s value. It has dropped almost 50% to ~$400 and this sort of extravangant at workplace makes investors uncomfortable.

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