All? No. Obviously he'll be keeping a bunch and obviously some key people are productive. But, look, what are new revenue streams and features added in the last 5 years? One hand's digits can enumerate them.

Here is a biz-dev at TWTTR: in her own words: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/skmAZHNuEP0

Same, with MST 3000-style commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk6T1pmHCAE

i am screaming, why am i grinding leetcode again? LOL

Reminds me of a similar video but from a LinkedIn employee https://youtu.be/X5TZVhKDwpk

I don't see how you can infer anything at all from that video. It's not like she's going to show her screen while she's typing away at an email (I hope it's obvious why...). There's also no timestamps, so the video says nothing about how much time is spent slacking off vs working. The video snippets probably only accounted for 2 hours of her day (at most). That doesn't seem super wasteful to me. If your impression is that "smoothie and wine on tap = slacking off", I think that's your misconception to correct.

That commentary video is also worse than useless; they're obviously not aware of how tech companies operate. They're commenting on things like the office being empty and the employee visiting the office for the first time. Are they not aware of WFH? The "gourmet" meals are also standard at many tech companies, and are an extremely small part of the cost. It's not like vegetables are more expensive when you prepare them in a way that looks good. On the net, offering the free food (and smoothie, foosball etc.) leads to much more value created than they cost to provide. This mentality is penny-wise, pound-foolish.

I've had that sort of schedule, except for me it was more like leave early to catch a movie (happily that coincided with the summer that Moviepass was big).