Visiting the Apple and Facebook campus' may have been the highlight of the trip in my perspective. Having looked into the Apple campus the night before, I found it interesting how Apple is in the process of building a completely new campus, in the shape of a ring or "spaceship". Also interestingly enough, and much like what we saw at VMWare; Apple is using many recycled materials to create the new building. Another interesting fact we learned about the new Apple campus, which we were able to get a good glimpse of from the 6th floor of anther building; is that it is supposed to come up very fast and be complete in the next 2 years.
On our tour of the Facebook campus, I was blown away on how open and free the atmosphere of the campus felt. We learned that employees are able to get food for free at certain places, and there were also many accommodations such as a hair barber, so employees rarely need to leave the campus. Awesomely enough, the Facebook campus also had an arcade which was run and funded by employees! This was interesting because I have never been exposed to a work atmosphere like this one at all.
We finished off this evening with a discussion with the founder of a start up company WakaTime. This was a great experience because through our discussion I was told much about how the company came to be. What stood out the most was how the founder almost accidently came across her partner in a right-place-right-time style situation; and through that the company came into existence with the combination of her marketing skills and his engineering skills!
No comments:
Post a Comment