Monday, January 19, 2015

Facebook

Facebook is a Disneyland inspired campus with 10 restaurants.  They have a hamburger shack, a pizza spot 2 main cafeterias and many more restaurants.  There is an app that you download on your phone and each restaurant posts their menu on the app.  They even have a dessert bar.  Every restaurant is free.  I ate mac&cheese with truffle oil, chips, pizza, fries covered with cheese,  bread, ham and I drank Coke.  For dessert I had tiramisu and frozen yogurt.

They have a real arcade with Japanese video games that still say the price in Japanese Yen.  The main area is Hacker Square where there is a crane holding up a bench that was moved from the old to the new campus and on the floor of hacker square there are big letters that spell ''HACK''.  The floors and the ceilings of all the buildings are unfinished to show that Facebook will never be finished and they will always be improving.  They even have valet parking right outside the lobby in the parking lot.  At the entrance there is a big thumbs up sign and on the back of the sign it still says Sun Microsystems because Facebook used to be the Sun Microsystems campus and they just flipped around the sign.  They also had a barber, a dentist, a spa and the swag store.  Instagram's offices were inside Facebook and we got to see them as well.


My lunch at Facebook (before I got the pizza)
The back of the Facebook sign
The front of the Facebook sign
A wall inside of Facebook
                                      The crane holding up the bench at the middle of Hacker Square
  
                                                        A photo booth inside Instagram


















Sunday, January 4, 2015

Twitter

Twitter is a big building on Market street.  On the bottom floor they are building a market with restaurants. There is also a public gym on the second floor.  They also have a roof top deck where you can play games look at the street eat and hang out.

They have a cafeteria on 4 floors.  The main cafeteria is on the ninth floor.  They also have cafeterias on the fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth floor.  They have small plates and good drinks.  I ate cheeseburger pizza, amazing fish & chips, tater tots covered in chili, muscles, french onion soup, popcorn, and fries.

They also have snack bars, a smoothie bar, multiple game rooms and you can't even use the elevators without a badge.

I hope you liked my blog post about Twitter, even though it was really short but I really hope you liked it.

Pixar

Pixar is an enclosed campus with a swimming pool and 20 bars and a huge fireplace. They had 1 cafeteria and 1 cafe.  In the cafeteria you have to pay but they have amazing pizza, soup and, ravioli.  At Pixar they also have a art gallery from the creator of pixar.  To get there we drove across the Bay Bridge to Emeryville.

Google

                                                The google stage in the cafeteria
                                                      The yard by the visitor center
                                                Foosball in the game room

Google is a sprawling campus 45 minutes from San Francisco right off the highway.  It is a group of buildings. There are also random buildings that aren't even Google and there are even houses.  Google has multiple cafeterias and the main one is in the Googleplex.  There is also a gift shop that sells various things but mostly shirts.  While we were visiting we played fuse ball and we visited the offices.