So today I accomplished a few things: I signed up for a PO Box in Palo Alto, went to CitiBank and finished creating an account and I started working for Facebook. Yes, today was my first day at Facebook and the only words I can use to describe it are “fucking awesome.”
There are a lot of things I am not allowed to talk about, but I believe I can say that the new hire orientation was very sweet. Unlike when I started at any other company, I am basically ready to go by the end of day one. Apparently this is rather new, but after the usual new hire spiel the IT guys showed up with all of our phones and all of our laptops, walked us through getting everything setup and fixed a few problems on the spot.
I got a Mac. Yup, I don’t have a PC. So far, I love it. I’m going to get VMware Fusion so that I can run some windows (rarely) and some Ubuntu.
And the benefits! They have breakfast, lunch and dinner catered! Dry cleaning is free (you pay taxes)! There are other things too, but I can’t recall them at the moment.
I’ve also got a temporary (few months) room about 0.5mi from Facebook, so I am walking to work. Have a look at my room!