Microsoft Announces New Silicon Valley Campus

For the love of god, could you build the thing in Hayward? Fremont? Pleasanton? Anywhere that isn't the peninsula?

> spaces to spark creativity with teammates

Uh oh. We know what that's code for.

> Focus and privacy can be found in a soundproof drop-in phone booth

If focus and privacy aren't properties of my primary, permanent space then I'm not considering it a viable employment option.

This feels more the fault of local government that just lets large tech companies have their way.

If you read this: https://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=52550473

you'll see that their post does not mention the housing situation at all. I wonder where they will find all the non-engineers and execs - the janitors, the guards, the cooks, the receptionists - who are being pushed out by every acre that gets taken over by Apple/Google/MSFT.

Didn’t they recently let a lot of folks go from Silicon Valley?

>Microsoft has begun a major modernization of its 32-acre Silicon Valley Campus, a project that represents a significant investment in more than 2,000 employees in the San Francisco Bay Area and the company’s commitment to creating the best employee experience in the industry. It is scheduled for completion in December 2019.

Two years? Damn.