Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died
That free food and those ping pong tables are very representative of how a person treat their employees, though.<p>They typically mean that the person believes that food and games are appropriate compensation for continuous overtime. I wouldn't need food if I was (socially, it's rarely made explicit) allowed to leave at an appropriate time (5pm, assuming 9am arrival), because I'd have time to make my own dinner.<p>Similarly, ping-pong tables mean you do not value your employees' focus, and believe that "whack whack whack" noises are totally okay in a room of knowledge workers (well, then that it's a single room room means...).<p>So culture might not <i>be</i> the ping-pong tables and candy, but they're certainly representative.