> People who have entered the industry in the last decade or two may not realize it, but the sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships and lots more that you enjoy every day are all thanks to Sergey and Larry in the early 00s wanting to build a Disneyland for nerds.

Two comments:

1. They wanted to encourage people to work later

2. Where the f%%% was all that stuff when I was at AWS /s

I did work remotely the entire time I was there (my department didn’t have an RTO mandate). But I did travel to corporate offices in DC, Nashville, Dallas, Seattle and San Francisco after Covid lifted and I was…disappointed.