Photo: Tamer Abu-Dayyeh / Built In It’s Basically Disneylandįacebook hired consultants who helped design Disneyland to build out the campus’s main street, which looks like a fusion of Palo Alto, the nearby town where Facebook was founded, and Downtown Disney. Here are some other highlights of Facebook Menlo Park. The arcade isn’t perfect - because it’s maintained by employees, some of the games don’t work- but it shows how Facebook, as an institution, strives to empower employees and embrace change. Other employees brought in games of their own, and soon the closet had been transformed into a bustling arcade, complete with a Dance Dance Revolution stage. Once, for instance, an employee spontaneously brought a Japanese game to campus and installed it in a closet. That can mean personalizing a desk, hanging a Pride flag from a banister, or doing something a bit more elaborate. “We try to hack our spaces,” Meyere said. This extends from the campus’s address - 1 Hacker Way - into the office interiors. Photo: Tamer Abu-Dayyeh / Built In The Officeįacebook has matured as a company, but it still retains a healthy dose of its early, hacker culture. Facebook’s newsfeed was born out of a Hackathon.) (Another one: The internal Hackathons, where the only rule is that employees have to work on projects they wouldn’t normally work on. People specializing in engineering, product, communications and virtual reality are all scattered fairly randomly across the campus - one of many design touches intended to foster cross-functional collaboration. More than a quarter of Facebook’s 45,000 global employees work out of Menlo Park, and the massive team does “a little bit of everything,” said Chloe Meyere, a communications manager at Facebook. Related View the Top 100 SF Tech Companies to Work For Photo: Tamer Abu-Dayyeh / Built In The Team However, campus also has plentiful parking for those who drive. Facebook runs regular shuttles to and from the Menlo Park Caltrain station, which is about a 10-minute drive away, and provides employees with a transit stipend. Though headquarters isn’t in an urban center, more than half of Facebook’s employees get to work via alternative transportation, whether that’s biking or public transit. “MPK,” as insiders call it, covers more than 250 acres and contains more than 30 buildings. They're Hiring | View 20 Jobs Meta is Hiring | View 20 Jobsįacebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park sit on the edge of San Francisco Bay, on a sprawling campus that feels more like a town than an office. We toured Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters to find out what it’s like to work for the life-changing social media giant. Its headquarters have also grown outwards, sprawling across multiple campuses. In other words: Facebook has gotten, as Ginuwine would say, “so responsible.” It’s grown up. Though Facebook still invests heavily in growing its user base - an early priority - it’s also begun to invest more in content moderation and security measures. Once guided by the maxim “move fast and break things,” Facebook now simply strives to “ move fast” (or “move fast and eat things,” a tongue-in-cheek message emblazoned on a campus burger shack). This has brought on some internal shifts. No longer a scrappy up-and-comer, it’s now one of the world’s most successful social media and digital advertising platforms.įind Top Jobs in San Francisco See Tech Companies Hiring Now (Even Ginuwine’s - the R&B singer is verified on the platform!) Today, the way people meet, flirt, share photos and get invited to parties is often mediated by Facebook or one of its subsidiary apps, like Instagram and WhatsApp.įacebook’s success has been so resounding, it has changed Facebook itself.
Fittingly, when we checked into the lobby at Facebook’s headquarters, Ginuwine was crooning over the loudspeakers: “ My whole life has changed since you came in.” Facebook’s rollout in the early aughts changed almost everyone’s life.
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