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Hello, it's me.
I've been interviewing with some companies, and now I have to decide between JPMorgan Chase and Globant.
Globant is more innovative, and has remote work. I will enter to work with a Sillicon Valley startup based in San Francisco. The tech stack is React, Nextjs, AWS, and a serverless architecture.
JPM is semi remote, and less innovative. The tech stack Java, SpringBoot and AWS. But I'd do more migration tasks, like dockerize projects and pass them to kubernetes. What would you choose?
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Haha, this is real, though! Personally, I don't mind a pizza party and ice cream. However, you are right. This is not 'compensation' and better pay should always be the goal.
I would trade the pizza and cake for the remote work any day. I can always buy pizza and cake.
It depends. My boss pays for those things out of her own pocket so I appreciate them and think it’s nice she wants to do that for us. She gave us all $50 Amazon gift cards for the holidays and $25 Uber Eats vouchers for a team lunch recently. I’m happy with that.
If the department uses budget for these things, then I might get annoyed but I also know companies usually have separate budgets for salaries and raises versus “social activities”.
People are getting raises but they still have a social bucket. It’s usually really small in most companies at like 1% allocation from the entire budget. That’s not taking much away from raises.
Even if people get raises they’re still going to complain about money budgeted for other things not going to them
I like pizza. Ice cream gives me brain freeze.
My office regularly caters in lunch or desserts, however, I am one of a few remote workers from my office and we get nothing. A credit for DoorDash or Uber Eats or even a McDonalds gift card would be welcome...hell, I’d be content if they Venmo’d me $10 to grab something I wanted. By the way, raises are very rare.
Ha! This was the only "bonus" at my previous company and it was a joke. I'm happy to say here at MongoDB (in TS at least) they'd never do that as a means of reward.
However, its a common way to entice people to come back into the office. If there's planned socialization or other team meetings/activities then it makes everyone's commute more worth it.
It’s not compensation, it’s team building. It’s also a weak attempt at it, but I wouldn’t conflate one with the other.
Would you really care for a $5 check instead of that slice?
A legitimate catered meal with quality food you wouldn't normally order yourself for lunch/dinner is non-weak attempt. That's expensive though so hence, low cost economical pizzas. I don't get too bent out of shape about it. I like pizza. :-) but calling it comp or a perk, heck no.
It's not supposed to be compensation. You are really complaining about free food? I can already tell what sort of employee you are
and I can already tell what kind of corporate simp you are.
I’m the other way… at least your company buys you pizza or ice cream. We don’t get free food anymore.
I get you want cash.
Went from $13 pp per month for appreciation to 6 now it 6 per quarter...
I'd advise you to find a new company. I work from home so the only thing that my bosses understand is compensation.
I work remote because I have super severe celiac and can't risk exposure to these asinine food events. And you're right-- pizza doesn't make me feel valued. Money does.
But food is a tax deduction, and pay raises just cost more money, so they'll never change.
The way some of you talk about this you make it seem like pizza parties cost thousands of dollars a pop.
My manager gets $1K/year for our social budget. We have 20 people on the team. That’s $50/pp. Most companies aren’t spending $10K a year on pizza or happy hours ffs.
It's better than just saying "thank you for your hard work", but not by much. My cynical opinion is it's just there to keep people from either skipping lunch or leaving the office/work for food during a busy time. no where I have ever considered it compensation. If a company I worked for or interviewed ever legitimately touted this as such(publicly and repeatedly), I would immediately be looking elsewhere for future employment. Free pizza works if you're a poor college kid or poor in general, but a business touting it as a perk? I wouldn't even know where to begin with criticizing how tone deaf and insulting that is.
The AppleTV series, "Severence", made quite a social commentary on this with the mundane and sometimes downright creepy incentives that the employees were given. These included "Finger Traps", a "Music/Dance Experience", the "Melon Bar", and the infamously creepy "Waffle Party".
My work has waffle Wednesday every few months...