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Inside Pics of the Zappos Office

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Forgive me...17th pic: http://blogs.openforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/zappos...

Granted, it's low-res, but "Damn."

Thought the same thing. We need to get out a lot more.

Thanks for bringing this up (at the risk of downvotes for reductionist sexism) so that I didn't have to.

Great inside view of a hyper-successful company. You know what impresses me more than all the shiny/fun stuff? The abundance of natural light.

http://blogs.openforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/zappos...

"It is likely men, women and children will wear shoes for the foreseeable future."

Interesting.. I wonder if there is a viable alternative or major improvement to shoes in general. We haven't had too much innovation in that area, or at least I can't think of many.

Shoes used to be made out of wood. Now they have ones with a miniature finger operated air pump. That's progress!

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com - The only footwear innovation I've seen recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Free perhaps? (granted - it's a shoe - but it does re-think some of the standard shoe assumptions.

can't think of much else.

That makes me want to visit there barefoot :)

Just slowly walk in to their large office, look around with wide eyes, and scream "I need some shoes!"

Wow, was not expecting their office to be so lively and fun. Also very cool that the CEO of a company with $1 billion worth of sales works in a cubicle like his employees. Looks like a great place to work!

It looks lively, but it also looks like they stuffed every single fun and lively object they could find inside their doors.

Maybe it's just the pictures but their office seems really visually crowded:

http://blogs.openforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/zappos...

I find it cool they give away free books to their employees (4th picture). Just another example of how Zappos does things their own way.

Another cool site featuring office pictures from Apple, Adobe, Craigslist, etc...: http://www.officesnapshots.com/

The disorder of their office is matched by the disorder of their website. A billion links, banner ads for unrelated things right in the middle of the website, two search boxes near each other... it's terrible.

and yet they're a billion dollar business. :) so much for usability and graphic design...

Are employees encouraged to display "flair" or is that honestly spontaneous?

When I saw the pictures from inside Pixar, I wasn't too surprised, but.. this is awesome for a company like Zappos. We know they're progressive, but behind closed doors progressive companies are often anything but.

The Zappos offices seem only a foot step away from a surf shack - what a stimulating environment!

What. A. Mess.

I honestly started feeling anxious just looking at all that clutter. I couldn't work there a week without a complete mental breakdown. At least the website reflects the office space.

Me too; it was like apartment hunting all over again.

We should post pics of TS world headquarters. ;p

And I'm pretty it's as a fire hazard.

garbage bomb explodes in office :)

Their website [ http://www.zappos.com/ ] looks like their office space... ...cluttered.

Your attitude about their office space is like your comment...lame. It's great what they have going on there.

I expect their bank balance is also somewhat more cluttered than yours, however.

looks like a supermarket to me !

What is it with these offices that look like some sort of nursery school? Nobody has adult tastes?

I'm sure the weekly standard isn't too popular here but they ran a great cover story called "The Infantilization of Corporate America," that was pretty funny and it speaks to your comment: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...

I don't think I could any work done there, either. There's one thing to have "character" and another to be distracting as hell.

I probably belong in a basement with a 20cmx20cm window...

This company, and the industry it serves, targets a specific clientele maintains a specific image. I don't think their decoration is out of line there, despite the fact that it would drive me bananas.

I agree that the nursery school decor is unwelcome without some overriding design goal, however.

Hm, I disagree. Have you looked at Zappos? They have every kind of shoe imaginable, including many very expensive men's dress shoes. Zappos's market is anyone who uses shoes, which is pretty much everyone.

Insulting someone's sense of style or taste is not insightful or good commentary - just an ad hominem fallacy.

An insult it may be, but it is definitely not an ad hominem fallacy. Please be a little less liberal with that overused term.

Since it was not in response to an initial argument, you are formally correct. However, a more common, less rarefied definition of ad hominem is "appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason." In this sense, any insult based on personal taste with no logical basis is an ad hominem attack, which by definition is a fallacious rhetorical device. In either case, I am not open to prescription.

If someone who voted this down could explain how my post was in anyway "spam", "offensive" or otherwise incorrect, please do. You are opposing HN moderation standards by voting down to below zero something that does not match any of those criteria.

Some voters here consider childish insults worth modding up and someone calling out those insults worth modding down. Ironic, considering that the original insult was implying that Zappo staff members are immature :)

Please stop.

Fire hazard, much?

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