Unusual office: I want to work like this!
Photoblogger Sergey Mukhamedov says: “A free massage therapist and a dance hall, video consoles and ottomans, hammocks and a free schedule, and even chips in an office store, which you can come by Segway. Fantastic? No, son, this is…”
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1. St. Petersburg office of Yandex! Just like in Moscow, it operates 24/7 - around the clock, seven days a week. The time of arrival and departure of employees is not regulated.
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3. Main receptionist. Visitors are greeted by the familiar "Find" button with a yellow arrow.
4. Here you can take the original sticker on the license frame or a paper pen.
5. “Everything has been done here to make it cool and comfortable” – this is how the company describes its office in one phrase. Now it occupies two floors, another one is being renovated.
6. In all Yandex offices, you can write on the walls, they are covered with a special film. This opportunity for self-expression was very harmful when shooting a reportage. Almost all walls are painted with formulas for which SEOs or competitors are ready to give their souls. I had to constantly look for such angles so that nothing superfluous got into the frame. I even, entering the next room, began to offer to change the plus for a minus and multiply by divide in order to misinform the optimizers.
7. Each room is arranged in a way that is convenient for employees
8. Winter tires can lie here ...
9. stand connected Kinect ...
10. Or host a collection of bottles from Louis Perrier
11. The floors are decorated with search symbols - arrows, pointers, interface elements. Guests find themselves literally inside Yandex services
12. Miniature icons that have grown to gigantic sizes are broken into three-dimensional pixels that grow out of the walls.
13. A lot of nooks and crannies for privacy or informal negotiations.
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15. This room, for example, was filled to the ceiling with ottomans
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17. To begin to navigate the meeting rooms, you need to remember the main sights of St. Petersburg from Palace Square to Kupchino. They are located in the same sequence as in the city.
18. The meeting room "Five corners" with a round hole in the wall, located opposite the "Fontanka". They say that if you look through binoculars from a real "patch", you can see it.
19. But what Pac-Man is doing here, I don’t understand. It seems that this is not an icon of any of the Yandex services?
20. What do employees do during working hours?
21. Drawing
22. Juggling
23. Playing with cars
24. Hockey
25. And even in Angry Birds!
26. Such work requires a lot of calories. Hostesses make sure that everything is on the tables
27. They serve breakfast, make tea, and even sew on a button.
28. Many, many years ago, when Runet was tiny and Yandex was little known, for one development team, moms constantly brought food to the office. First, they fed their programmer children, then their starving employee neighbors, then the neighbors' neighbors ... It turned out to be so convenient that after a while, permanent employees appeared in the office - Hostesses.
29. Six hostesses serve 638 office workers.
30. But they are forbidden to clean up at their workplaces.
31. Each employee creates his own little world on the table.
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33. Someone even pitched a tent to think about search algorithms in it
34. The fact that the office number 404 does not exist only seemed strange to me at first
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38. In this scary room sit developers of public service interfaces
39. Yandex Auto, Work and Real Estate services are developed only in the St. Petersburg office. In addition to them, they are also working on Money, Browser, Maps and of course Search
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There is free parking for every employee. I asked again: - For everyone? Not for visitors and guides, for everyone? - Of course, for everyone, how could it be otherwise?
41. All employees receive a voluntary medical insurance policy with dentistry. And they can buy it for close family members at a corporate cost. This is very important for those who move here from other cities.
42. When necessary, the relocation (moving) of a new nonresident employee is paid. He receives a relocation bonus + a week of accommodation in a hotel or corporate apartment. When a candidate is called for an interview, travel expenses are compensated. Sick leave 30 days a year is paid up to the full salary.
43. Everything that is necessary for work, you do not need to ask and can be taken from the cabinets. Nobody counts. To ensure that the shelves are always bursting with stationery, female office managers are watching. If something is missing, then depending on whether an introvert employee or an extrovert, you can order at the reception or from your laptop.
44. The most important meeting room - the conference room, of course, is called Smolny. Every Monday at 11 am there is a "Khural" with all offices (translated from the Mongolian "meeting"). Employees can come to the hall or watch the Khural online.
45. If there is "Winter", then there must be "Summer"!
46. On each floor there are three coffee points, a smoking room and three toilets with everything you need from soap and balms to towels, showers and shampoo
47. Advertisements hang in crowded places
48. It is forbidden to come with dogs and cats. Rumor has it that a chipmunk lives illegally in one of the premises, but I haven’t seen it myself, I can’t say for sure. I know only one company where you can work with animals. If you know of one, please write to me!
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51. Any literature of the world in the library can be bought at the expense of the company
52. Not only books on programming languages are collected here
53. But also a bunch of old movies on DVD and yearly magazine selections. For example, "Behind the wheel".
54. Free masseur works 3 times a week
55. It's time to look into the dining room! "Pay" here with a pass. Each month, a certain amount is charged for food.
56. It is immediately clear that the office is St. Petersburg
57. Buckwheat, chicken (in Khreshchatyk salad) ...
58. Cigarettes, chips, chocolate and cola - there is everything that a real programmer needs around the clock!
59. For those who are losing weight - the scales at the exit
60. And of course, there was a front door and a bakery
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62. But the most interesting thing happens on holidays. Sometimes a company allocates a budget within which employees can be creative. On February 23, the girls ordered several segways for each floor and installed ski attractions.
63. The boys, in response, invited makeup artists and photographers. And to live violin music they arranged photo shoots in flowers. And they themselves went in white T-shirts, on which the girls could write anything.
64. Gym, table tennis room - few people will be surprised by this. But no one has a dance hall!
Keywords: Office | Work | St. Petersburg | Yandex