Yandex St. Petersburg Office

Sergey Anashkevich aka aquatek_filips writes: "Office, office, office. A place where thousands of white and not-so-white-collar workers start and finish their careers, a place where destinies are created and crumble, a place that millions of people working in them hate.

Probably, that is why many companies are trying to make their offices non-standard, interesting, pleasant to work with and ... for visitors.

The first impressive creative offices I ever heard of were Google's workspaces. It seems to me that it was the software giants that once set the fashion for a completely different concept of the place where a huge number of people spend their best years.

And if the office of the search monster with the letter G is still somewhere ahead of me, then the leader of Russian search traffic, Yandex, has kindly invited me to visit their penates right now. Today my story is about bright glass cubes among the technogenic entourage of walls and communication tunnels, famous bakeries and bakeries, and, of course, the center of cooperation with British scientists of the St. Petersburg office of Yandex..."

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Source: Livejournal/aquatek-filips

1. The St. Petersburg office of the famous Russian search engine is located in the Benois business center on Piskarevsky Avenue, and already from the street it looks not quite the usual way. Somewhere there, behind these multicolored glasses, on several floors there are workspaces of people doing search and a lot of additional services.

2. At the entrance, you are greeted by a huge inscription that will tell you exactly where you are. The search resulted correctly)

3. And then with an improvised pipe, somewhat resembling the @ symbol, only deployed in the opposite direction, offices, meeting rooms, mini-canteens, a gym and a lot of other rooms where 638 employees work begin.

4. The office does not have any one design option. Here there are walls with convex interface elements, then glass cubes of meeting rooms, then just concrete walls covered with cheerful signs and pointers of office numbers

5. A miniature icon from the size of 16x16 pixels has grown to a giant two-meter Yandex-man

6. The origin of Pac-Man in one of the corridors is difficult to explain even by Yandex employees themselves. Not only is it not found anywhere in their services, but it is also not quite made in the style of the rest of the office. Maybe the designers got it mixed up and brought the decor to the wrong office?)

7. Mini-clock so that no one forgets when it's time to go home. Although here the work schedule is standard for software companies — 24/7.

8. The most boring ones were closed behind XML glass. Developers are sitting here

9. In the St. Petersburg office of Yandex, specialists are concentrated who fully provide several areas of the company's activities — this is Yandex.Money and Yandex.Vertical. What is Yandex.The vertical, apparently, is known only by the employees of Yandex itself)

10. It is impossible to confuse which room you are in. Sometimes the size of the letters in their names exceeds the field visible to the human eye. Probably so that they don't ask: "How to get into the technical room?"

11. Toilet.W and Smoking Room are located next door. Toilet.M in a slightly different place)

12. There are a lot of different meeting rooms and micro-spaces in the office for privacy and work. By the way, what I particularly noticed is that there are no giant open spaces that are familiar and fashionable today, when hundreds of people are poring over their work in a huge hall divided by partitions.

13. All micro-spaces are made in different styles and in different color schemes. Someone is more comfortable working in green, someone in yellow, someone in black..

14. And someone among a tree and a wall on which you can write

15. And you can even close up and sleep

16. And although the office is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, there is almost no one here on a day off…

17. A special story — inscriptions on the walls, windows of rooms and in the corridors. Password XXX. Admit it, does anyone have such a blog)?

18. The same pytoshnaya. According to version 4.0

19. Tourists are waiting in the sauna. Immoral tension at a height

20. Work behind the exit.....

21. "Have you had any victims at work? They will!" (c). At least one dinosaur ate here…

22. The meeting rooms here all have their own names. And since this is Peter, their names are exclusively St. Petersburg

23. Fontanka, Kupchino, Winter, Smolny…

24. Numbering of offices. 404 office for some reason it is impossible to find. It just doesn't exist

25. He should be here somewhere, but no..

26. News of the day. Here are the employees

27. Did you think Winter looks different?

28. Can you tell me how to get to the library?

29. Here is the entrance to it

30. Hello, is this a laundry room? No, the bakery…

31. Just a fox's nose.

32. There are several small kitchen areas in the office where you can drink coffee or tea, eat nuts, dried apricots or cookies. Many years ago, wives and mothers brought sandwiches and other snacks to the guys in the office. Now there are rooms that are constantly filled with food. All this is monitored by specially trained people — Housewives. There are eight of them.

33. Another Master's

34. For emotional relief, you can play darts if you are tired of eating

35. A place to take pictures of yourself for Instagram. They say the most popular in the office

36. Yandex canteen. It even has a projector

37. And another mini-dining room. A penguin lives here…

38. And the mouse

39. Cockroaches. period. no.

40. I like the left sign in general. The correct sysadmin.

41. Without words. And so everything is clear…

42. Don't swear! It's been said!

43. And, of course, without a photo of the Center for Cooperation with British scientists, I can't leave this office.

44. Or leave... on a skateboard. They say that once someone even drove down the corridor to work on a motorcycle.

45. I spent more than 3 hours in these bright rooms with almost no people, but... it's time to go to Pulkovo for the return plane… See you in the Simferopol office of Yandex…