Facebook Visit Notes
Travel
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I recently visited the Facebook campus in Menlo Park for a week and was impressed with what I saw there. Here's a few notes from my visit:
The Campus
- Set up like Disney’s Main Street USA
- Dozens of restaurants
- Coffee shops
- Outdoor seating with firepit
- Large outdoor jumbotron for outside announcements / meetings
- Free transportation to / from city
- Bike lanes for bike riding
- Free bikes to ride on campus
- Bike repair shop
- Barber shop
- Salon
- Video Game center
- Candy shop
- Gym
- Vibrant artwork throughout campus
- Kitchens on every floor with free snacks / drinks
- Rooftop garden with coffee shop
- No cubicles. Standing desks and treadmill desks available
App Dev / I.T.
- Engineering-driven culture
- I.T. Help Desk in every building
- I.T. supply vending machines
- Interactive widescreen building maps
- Outlook used for email
- Custom video meetings (bluejeans)
- MacBook Pros prevalent
- Custom Mac App Store
- Download indie apps and well known apps (e.g. Photoshop)
- Github’s Atom is main dev editor
- Custom Atom plugins
- Web-centric tools
- Force all employees to use / test internal versions of apps (aka dogfooding)