Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners 400
waderoush writes "Plenty of technology companies serve free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to their employees, but Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy says that's a form of mind control designed to get people to to work late. To keep employees happy, Duffy says, it's better to make them go home to their families for dinner. Some other suggestions from the San Francisco video monitoring startup: don't fill your engineering department with young, single, childless males (aka brogrammers). Keep your business model simple by making actual stuff that you can sell for a profit. And don't hire assholes. Why pay attention to Duffy's advice? Because Dropcam has a 100 percent employee retention rate — no one who has joined the 4-year-old company has ever left."
Re:But...Agile teaches us... (Score:5, Informative)
"...that we shouldn't want things like identities, families, and lives. It is a joy for us to be interchangeable work-bots. Dissention must be expunged so that we can be assimilated. Obedience is happiness!"
"Agile" does nothing of the sort. If that's how you're doing Agile, you're doing it wrong.
Re:100 percent of 1 is 1 (Score:4, Informative)
how many employees are there? just him?
FTA:
Rather, it's that people just like to stay: Dropcam has hired 30 workers to date, and it's never had to give a single going-away party.
Re:Hm. (Score:5, Informative)
Normal people do, yes.
A lot of tech workers don't act like normal people, however.
Re:Food rewards (Score:2, Informative)
As a Googler... what? There's plenty of us that eat dinner then go straight home.