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Re:Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at ... by spcelzrd on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:24AM (#13995085)
I agree that a 401k match is better than the equivalent salary. Match is often a company policy and non-negotiable. Salary is negotiated per individual and usually more than once over the lifetime of a job, so it's easier to get more salary than more retirement match.

It's the pingpong tables that kill me. Why does this make me want to work there?

Re:Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at ... by madcaptenor on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:55AM (#13995886)
Ping-pong (foosball, etc.) tables make me less likely to want to work somewhere. At an old job the foosball table was near my desk. Whatever little amusement I got from playing foosball was dwarfed by the annoyance of other people playing foosball while I was trying to work. Ping-pong would be worse because I'd be trying to get things done while balls are flying through the air near me.
Re:Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at ... by Cerium on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:45PM (#13996936)
I used to work with an old engineer who said that every company he worked for that had a ping-pong table has closed up shop in the years since.