Where are they?
from Fast Company Magazine – February 2010
Back in 2004, Facebook was still a post-dormroom project on wobbly colt legs, being coded by true believers, pulling all-nighters from rented living rooms around Palo Alto. Now, the company has 1,200 employees, recruited and supported by a professional human resources manager, and lives in a 150,000-square-foot headquarters that is more reminiscent of an early Google or Microsoft than a scrappy start-up. “Yeah, we’ve come along way,” says CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
But the spirit of the original Facebook — do things fast, take risks, don’t be afraid to break things to make them better — still lives on, even as their surroundings have become more grown-up. “We’re an entrepreneurial company,” says Andrew Bosworth, a coding legend who runs a “boot camp” for new engineers. “This place is fast paced and free form. If you’re not coming up as a new ideas, then you’re just along for the ride.” The working environment is designed for, and modified by, people who toil long hours (all-nighters are still routine) and find that creative, often irreverent, self-expression to be as important as the copious free food.
At 400 million active users worldwide, Facebook has long shaken off its college roots. But the spirit of dorm-room expressiveness lives on at the company’s new headquarters.
Someone uses or logs in to Facebook from every country on earth, and the international team is visibly proud. Facebook works with more than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries, and the site is found in more than 70 language, including Latin.
Where are the people?… 400 million of them are on FACEBOOK alone!
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