Chinese tech companies are motivating programmers by hiring cheerleaders

"They have three main tasks. The first is to buy breakfast for the programmers [...] Secondly they are there to chat and interact [... ]Finally, they are there to play ping-pong with the programmers [...]

That's almost the opposite of a professional work place. Reminds me of the Mad Men episodes that depict 1960s office atmosphere were most assistants just used their jobs as a past time until getting married. At least Mad Men included a couple of strong female characters, but lots of others were were shown as being hired for beauty and typewriter writing.

This is degrading--both to the "cheerleaders" and the programmers. Look at the face of the poor woman programmer in the second picture. Stereotypical "Bro" culture only now with Chinese subtitles.