Day 2: A Tale of Two Businesses

1/7/20 Our first full day in California was already super interesting. We started off strong with touring Google Cloud's campus. The way they run businesses in New York and the way they run them in California are like night in day. Google seems to care about their employees and wants them to enjoy work. They have tons of free food, access to bikes to use, access to all sorts of free features like cooking classes and massages. They make the buildings interesting to be in. Each building and floor having different themes. It felt like a college campus. The other big thing that I noticed was that no one wore a suit. In New York we have a way we picture a professional in our head. A quality cleaned suit with shined shoes. Here in Silicon Valley people wore whatever they wanted, jeans and a sweatshirt or sweat pants and a themed t-shirt.

PlayStation was different on the other hand. While they were smaller, they didn't seem to have as much control on them from cooperate. Google planned everything out for their employees but it seemed like PlayStation left the designing and themes of places in charge of the people who worked within them. The people also seemed to love the work so much that they would work their even if they didn't like the company. Google didn't seem nearly as like this. A solid day overall with many cool surprises and sites.