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Great Video clip! Excuse me for chiming in, I would appreciate your thoughts. Have you heard about - Schallingora Brain Reconstruction Scheme (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to acquire the mind of a millionaire minus the hard work. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my old buddy Taylor after a lifetime of fighting got great results with it.
Main lesson I took from this video: If you wanna do something crazy, do it young and do it before you have kids! Job and kids will eat up all of your time!
@@myhops Stupid. Men should get married. So your family won't be rolling in their graves when they're gone. But that is most Asian people's mindsets tho. Western people don't care about family that much, so they can have more freedom in their lives.
@@norpriest521 It's not that if you should get married automatically guarantees that you'll get married. Some people try to ignore this part of life if they're not having success in it =)
Its not really ironic if you consider how common it is for people not to like doing their job when they aren't on the job. Chefs don't like cooking at home. Porn stars don't like sleeping around outside of work. Mafiosos live in very safe neighborhoods. Dance instructors don't like to go social dancing. I can keep going on and on.
"I am at Google, people will probably think I am a weirdo..asking random people random questions" Lmao Bro that's what they have built their whole company upon :'D
@@brentdan68 Actually I don't have a phone, I think they're poisonous, they disrupt the mind, and they emit EMF that gives you cancer, so I have a very good ***king reason don't I?
there’s a UA-camr that goes by TechLead and he used to work for Facebook until they fired him for being honest about some things on UA-cam. I think that’s what most of those people are afraid of.
LOL - it's kinda true. I've been in Silicon Valley for 33 years now - after work, you either work out, do a quick hike, play tennis, basketball, go out to eat ... it's no different than any other place. I mean, who has time after work but to relax and kick back? Now, weekends are a different story - we go to San Francisco or Santa Cruz or Carmel ... ride our bike across Golden Gate bridge, hang out at Stanford, Alviso ... go boating, swim ... there are tons of stuff to do. What makes this possible is near perfect weather almost every day of the year - that's the key. In short, people that can afford to live here - stay. Those that can't, complain about traffic, cost, congestion ... and move. That's the bottom line. Oh, another thing - if you know what you're doing, you can become a multi millionaire extremely quickly. For instance, I can safely say that every single homeowner here in silicon valley that purchased their house more than 5 years ago - are probably a millionaire.
@@trinayangogoi590 - Every individual is different - so I can only speak for myself. But in my opinion - life is lot sweeter when money is no longer an issue ... I wake up every morning knowing that I can quit whenever I want, work if I want, relax if I want ... knowing that I never have to worry about money again. It also helps if you enjoy your work - I love programming - I'd do it for free. So if you love what you're doing - money is secondary. If you get rich - that's just icing. But at the end of the day, being happy is all that matters. But I can only speak for myself - and growing up poor - not knowing if my parents were going to have a roof over our head ... that computer science degree for me was a lifesaver. And when I paid off my house and had hit million dollars in my savings account - the stress that was lifted off my shoulder was indescribable. At minimum, I knew me and my family were never going to be homeless. Having said that - money does not guarantee happiness - however, LACK OF MONEY almost always guarantees *UNHAPPINESS*. So in my opinion, it is imperative you at least have enough to exist.
@@facebooksmith1269 I don't need a million To exist. Besides where I'm at, I make more than quarter a million a year,, from my retail shop and car wash/ repair shop. I do agree that money plays a vital role, but I can also assure that it can be made from anywhere, needn't it be from a place where it's only work 12 hrs a day. After I did my masters in CS, I joined SVIS. I expected it to be a 9-5, ending at 5. Obviously I was wrong. After work hours, our manager assigned small groups of us some stupid shits and we have to submit it a day or two. Overtime is Soo common in their culture that most of us would stay at office till 8 or 9. That's 3-4 days a week. The people weren't honest and very secretive. All they care about is money and more money. Relationships feel soo dull and selfish. Was too much for me to handle.
@@trinayangogoi590 - you don't need million to exist - but I'm talking about if you have no other source of income. With couple million in the bank, you know that working is an option. Freedom is what you're striving for - if you can get that at $1.00 - that's good too. And what you say about SV is true - I've been programming for over 3 decades and I've been with many start ups - we practically live at the company. Food is brought in, in house Gym, any ethnic food you want - it's like a family. Sometime you hit it big, sometime you don't. What you're forgetting is that lot of these people (including myself) - would do this for free. This is what we *WANT* to do. Money is just bonus. On top of that, we have near perfect weather, diversity, any type of ethnic food we want, access to surfing, hiking, skiing ... I remember our company used to send us to London for lunch and fly back the next day. Obviously, there are many ways you can make money. I made $100K today just by shorting the market (so far - still 10 minutes till closing) - tomorrow, I'll put some call options and I'll probably make another $100K or so - so money isn't the issue. Once you have couple million in the bank - it's easy to make money. It's getting the first million that's hard. And at that point, it's about creating and having fun - and SV gives you is an environment where you can have fun in near perfect temperature 365 days a year. For instance, right now, I'm coding while overlooking Santa Cruz board walk. It's just a different lifestyle. Not everyone is cut out for it - you obviously were not. Nothing wrong with that - you found success the another way. As long as you're having fun - that's all that matters.
so they are living like 0.3 of their life and 0.7 they waste to get money to be able to live that tiny 30%? I'm sorry if its not 20%work 80%do what I wanna do, I dont want this life thank you very much. I wont be extending my trial 18years
I've lived in the SV for all my life. This seems pretty spot on. Although the sample size here is biased towards tech employees & older mature folks with families, there's alot of suburbs, hiking trails, and traffic. I used to go to the climbing gym until traffic died down, go out to eat, head home, rinse and repeat. If you really want some night life, you can go to downtown SJ or what I did, drive to SF and drive back down (traffic on the way back is sometimes 3hrs).
I appreciate your boldness. Hopefully even after thinking this through you still continue to ask bold questions in this bold way. It’s sometimes bc ppl think too much that we never get to see these kind of videos :)
Thanks for putting this video together! I have been in in the Valley many times for work, and although as a visitor it is such a thrilling place, as someone living there... I can see people falling into a very limited monotony. Unless you are a huge fan of open-space activities (surfing, hiking, flying...) you are going to end up staying at home, because everything is so painfully far from everything else... Not to mention commuting!! 😫 I am based in London and, despite being far from perfect, I live in a flat with a giant garden, I can get the Tube and be in the office in 30 minutes. And when you finish work, you are in the centre at a walking distance of Soho, Fitzrovia, King's Cross... On the weekends you can either stay in London or visit some lovely places around (Brighton, Bath, Canterbury, Cambridge, Oxford...) and if you want to do something a bit more special you can get a train to Paris or Amsterdam or fly to anywhere else in Europe in 1-4 hours. Regardless how much money you have, you still need the time and the opportunities at hand to make something minimally unordinary with your evenings and weekends.
As a SV tech worker, I can tell you a lot of us just go home and sleep after work. We're too exhausted to do anything, and the traffic is horrible! Some of us have to commute hours to work because housing is affordable outside of SV. The weekends are when we have fun, there's games to go, beaches, parks, hiking, etc. But even then some of us are working on weekends night or day.
@@velzing22 are they gonna survive till that point? What if you will die this week, you never know. There should be ballance in life for every day. They dont have that. I mean its a failure of human race, we are human resources in hands of giant corporations
I laughed at the real footage part. Subbed! Also, in my experience, most techies spend their time the same way as shown in videos. Boba, watching videos, or working out.
@@GagandeepSingh-np1zr I live in Vermont, in the summer season I do a lot of mountain biking, keeps me fit, get to see cool places and meet people outside work that share the same interests, in the winter I snowboard, and same thing there too with the people and places, so no matter what season it is I have at least one thing I love and 2 groups of people to hang out with
@@trevhaas96 That is cool man. I always wanted to do Skiing in snow, but here in India there is only one place where one can do so, ie Kashmir and it is gripped with terrorism. Otherwise I would have opted for 25 day course. India is pretty bad if you want to do recreational stuff as too much population/pollution with lots of issues and not much cool places. That is one reason I want to come to west. I am myself Software developer, I also want to go abroad but not want to end up like these people in video, just want to hang out at cool places, even with one tenth of their salary, at least will inhale good quality air. Ah Man..
It really depends on what you like to do. there are many places to hike, and it being in calfornia means there are a lot of cool national parks you could visit. I think it's just that people want to relax and spend time with their family after work or on the weekends.
If you pay attention in minute 3:35 the woman saying "Micheladas" because in Mexico City it is a drink with beer also some ingredients like lemon, salt, sweetie sauces, etc. Sounds weird but a lot of people love them.
Wow, I work in tech in the SF Bay Area Peninsula for a decade now. I'm surprised to hear they don't have anything to do after work. Granted, I also live in SF where there are a lot more options compared to the South Bay. But still, there's NHL, NFL, and MLS when it comes to sports. There are also a few notable dance clubs and a casino there. There's a lot of good restaurants there too. When it comes to live music, there's definitely not many options compared to SF, but there are concerts at the Levi's Stadium, SAP Center, and Shoreline when big artists come to town. But SF is really not that far away. I've met a lot of SV techies at shows I've attended in the City. I do have to say, and someone already commented on this, Bay Area traffic sucks, especially around the Facebook, Google, and Apple campuses. Many live far from where they work; some even across the Bay. Once you spend an hour in traffic to get home, you really don't want to go out again. Some leave work late to let the traffic subside before they head home so it they really only have a few hours before they need to go to bed and get ready for the next day. So it's understandable it doesn't seem like to have much to do after work. It's more like they don't feel like doing anything aside from recouping after a long day.
yes they don't want to reveal the secret. psss...pss..pss... anyways ur name and profile picture is amazing like completely dwelled into algorithm paradigms.
I've been a consultant at one of these companies for several years now. For the most part during pre-Covid times, many of the bigger companies provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between on-site. So after work many FTEs (Full Time Employees) and TVCs (Temps, Vendors, Contractors) stay after the usual business hours to eat dinner, participate in hobby/cultural organization activities, or continue working. I enjoyed playing at the onsite arcade (DDR and zombie shooting games were my fave), and I would have joined a Quidditch team if it weren't for my bad knee. If you watch 'The Internship' from 2013, it's ALMOST the real thing at that company... but add doggos in the office and the constant complaining about commuting and traffic. Speaking of traffic, for many of us who have families and/or just want to get home ASAP, depending on where one lives in the Bay Area, it may take upwards of 1-2 hours on the commute back home (sounds painful, I know). There are some people I know of that commute 3-4 hrs if they live out in the Central Valley (which is East of the Bay Area). On Thursday or Friday nights, others choose to go out to nearby bars, pubs, restaurants to eat, drink, and socialize while waiting for traffic to die down.
I was born and raised in San Jose and I'm really not sure the expectation here. Its like any other suburb, and there's major sampling bias here (numerous parents who I don't think would do any different if they lived in say, Arizona). I left to LA and moved back to the Bay area both living in SF and San Jose. Both are better than places I went to college in New England. There's stuff to do - bars, events, etc. But people are lazy and downplay going out to eat, hanging with friends, etc. If your desire is to step out of your apartment and be surrounded by bars, street fairs, etc just hitting you in the face you need a city, and Silicon Valley isn't that.
What do people actually expect them to do after work? I mean I think the things they said pretty much applies anywhere else. What kind of ideal after work life are you guys thinking about?
This exactly, people seem to have unrealistic expectations or delusional self-standards from watching too much netflix. I'd say the lives of these SV people are pretty solid, peaceful and respectable
I was born and raised in Silicon Valley, but it was called Santa Clara Valley then. This video just adds to a long list of reasons why I am glad I moved out of there 25 years ago.
@@muskrat3291 same here. grew up in silicon valley but couldn't take it any more (as of recently). too crowded. too much traffic. the wild fires were getting too close for comfort. not to mention how CA turned from a beautiful state into a veritable dung-hole thanks to our politicians.
I worked most of the BIG companies in Silicon Valley from 1995 thru 2005 and most people are family oriented and spend most of there time on campus working 8 to 12 hour shifts. Some work 4 days a week 12 hour days and some just work 9 to 5 , 7 days a week. But most are exhausted after work mainly from commuting and it takes people a day of rest before they want to go out and do normal activities. Most people shop online during breaks so they dont have to shop after work. Many people work week end too and study on week ends and are on call so they have no free time. What was most exhausting was commuting to and from work. About 1 hour in traffic each way. But at off commute hours it only takes 15 minutes to get to work. But it is tough if you have kids. Because you have to work with a sitter , childcare and school and homework and feeding the kids. And all the problems that can come with raising children. It is tough. Also you have to be a Millionaire today to own a house in Silicon Valley.
"What do I do in my spare time? Fucking nothing! I come home, plug into electricity slot and stare at the wall all night waiting for my batteries to recharge" (c) Silicone Valley resident, 2065.
Developers In China: work 9:00am - 9:00pm. take subway to home for 1 hour , have a rest and take a shower for 2hour, go to bed at 12:00am , wake up at 7:30am, prepare for work and eat breakfast for 30min, spend 1 hour on subway to office. start a new cycle.😂
I'll help save you guys 9 minutes: They do nothing after work, cuz work never stops in Silicon Valley. They try very hard to come up with something LOL. But hey at least they making hella BANK. Oh wait rent and basic living costs just called... :(
Thank you also for saying the things about FOMO (never heard this expression before, but it describes perfectly my little existence crisis that I get sometimes) and your words helped!
3:34 she said “micheladas”. It’s basically beer mixed with tomato juice, lime, chili powder (mostly on the rim), and other things depending on your taste. I hate ones with tomato juice in it though haha.
Personally I've been in the Bay Area for about 3 years now -- it's basically commute --> work --> commute --> gym --> home --> sleep --> repeat haha. But since a ton of people are WFH now (like me), I have time to make UA-cam videos/watch Netflix/etc.
I used to be up at 6:00 every morning to take the bus over an hour each way to Sunnyvale, but I haven't been up before 8 now in weeks. I don't think most people will go back to commuting that far every day unless there's no other options. It's been nice working from home.
Lets not forget that you pay a ridiculous amount for cost of living. Even people with 6 figure salaries are living in single bedroom apartments. San Jose and San Francisco also has an atmosphere of cocky elitist bootlickers, and those who don’t fit that profile are just barely getting by or aren’t from the area. Many locals are not friendly at all. The housing prices are driven up because wealthy buyers from China are sandbagging everyone by dropping cash, upfront payments to most of the homes that are worth buying, but only renting them out to locals. I lived in several cities around the US throughout my life, including Chicago. The bay area is by far the worst.
all the people talking about their kids are beautiful. work for your kids, but also spend time with them to make them appreciate the work that goes into their lives
Love your content! Except for the part when you called people out for saying NO to the interview. I mean, no one has no obligation to agree to the interview or whatsoever, so you should get this straight before your next interview in the future. Cheers and keep up the good work!
So ur video captures the big company culture in SV really well. But if u want to the real SV, go to SF and the startup scene starting from Menlo Park, Palo Alto, San Mateo all the way to SF downtown. If u want to have fun and enjoy the work culture with your co workers and party after work join a startup. If u want to settle down, focus on career goals, side hustles, family, Work life balance go for bigger companies - but work, family and commute is the only thing u will be doing. But Sf bay area has a lot of things to do - day trips to Napa, various spots in sf, big sur, monterey - weekends. Weekdays - lots of great food places all over the bay area, bars, gyms. For younger folks who want to party - mountain view, Palo alto, Oakland (u gotta be careful but can be fun). Also there are tons of meet-up groups for hobbies. Big companies can also be fun, but u gotta go to company events to find like minded people. All the stuff I mentioned is pre pandemic, post pandemic everything seems dead given the stay at home orders.
This video encapsulates the failures, the do-nothingers. They sit around and watch Netflix, regardless of their setting, the do-nothingers will continue to do nothing. I am in Silicon Valley, but my setting does not define me. I am still able to build/launch/grow without living in the Valley, granted, I might not have access to as much capital since top VCs are here, but I will still fight, tooth and nail, to succeed.
These sound like typical answers. I was wondering what you were expecting. If you were interviewing someone who lived near Disneyland, would you expect them to say I go to Disneyland after work each day? Of course not. I work in I.T. myself and live and work in another valley (the San Fernando Valley). After work I might grab a bite to eat, or just go home. When I get home, I don't immediately go stare into a computer again. I do enough of that at work. :/
This video was AWESOME. I've always been totally curious what people are up to after work and I live in San Francisco where it always seems like so much is going on! I think i'm gonna try to film the same idea over here, thanks for the inspiration! You have a new subscriber!
Dude, Supermatt, I'm from Silicon Valley and I did not appreciate what you did to portray this region in a way that makes it appear as we're in a desert in the middle of nowhere. Besides the natural beauty of countless trails, parks, lakes, universities (Stanford, Santa Clara, SJSU, etc) there are numerous museums, amazing restaurants, breweries, galleries, etc. You also failed to mention that we are less than an hour away from the coast with numerous coastal towns and beaches. Additionally, we are also less than 45 miles away from one of the most popular cities in the world San Francisco, and less than 90 miles away from world-renown Napa Valley and some of the best wineries in the world. Besides not getting prior approval from the companies whose campuses you visited, you come across as someone who doesn't know what they are talking about or doing. Try again, better luck next time.
Wow, this video is really interesting. Getting to know what these programming masterminds are doing after work is fascinating. Also funny is the fact, that the data collecting Google-company refuses to allow any other individual to collect data around them in any kind even if it just has nothing to do with the company itself. Thank you for your effort. Great Video!
It is kind of drepressing how everybody is just living for the next day of work. Being a valuable asset for the company you work, when they would not blink to fire you if you mess up.
For those out there who wondered at 3:35 Micheladas (Chilalas in vid subtitles) is a drink that contains light beer, Clamato (tomato juice), lemon, salt and a variety of spices. Classic tasty Mexican drink.
It's true I see these people on the roads and there's nothing envious about their facial expressions, the hiking trails around here are truly breath-taking, so many different trails from san jose to the north and east bay it feels like your not in the bay area. Nature is always near no matter what city your in but it takes effort to explore
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great! keep on going with technological stuff...
You deserve it! 😃
if they really work.. their head will to tired to do anymore shit...
Great Video clip! Excuse me for chiming in, I would appreciate your thoughts. Have you heard about - Schallingora Brain Reconstruction Scheme (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to acquire the mind of a millionaire minus the hard work. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my old buddy Taylor after a lifetime of fighting got great results with it.
bro thanks for a great video you went to diffrent campus thanks
Main lesson I took from this video: If you wanna do something crazy, do it young and do it before you have kids! Job and kids will eat up all of your time!
Or don't have kids and do crazy stuff your whole life!
@@myhops
Stupid.
Men should get married.
So your family won't be rolling in their graves when they're gone.
But that is most Asian people's mindsets tho.
Western people don't care about family that much, so they can have more freedom in their lives.
true
@@norpriest521 ye true, survival and procreation those were the things that gave meaninf
@@norpriest521 It's not that if you should get married automatically guarantees that you'll get married. Some people try to ignore this part of life if they're not having success in it =)
It is more like Indian and China University campus with a few white tourists.
60% is white there and 30% asian
@@lionelh7217 im not even white, this is statistics from google
BLM!
maybe they were the ones to say yes to being interviewed. As he said in the video it's not a very good sample of people to draw conclusions.
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I find it a bit funny that the people at Facebook were uncomfortable sharing what they do after work....
Teo Bergkvist how ironic 🤣
Its not really ironic if you consider how common it is for people not to like doing their job when they aren't on the job. Chefs don't like cooking at home. Porn stars don't like sleeping around outside of work. Mafiosos live in very safe neighborhoods. Dance instructors don't like to go social dancing. I can keep going on and on.
haha
i heard facebook is weird like that
they got their privacy setting set to "ONLY ME".
"I am at Google, people will probably think I am a weirdo..asking random people random questions" Lmao Bro that's what they have built their whole company upon :'D
@@bradadult5290 Why use UA-cam? get out
@@kartikhegde533 lol
@@bradadult5290 lol why you using phone
@@brentdan68 Actually I don't have a phone, I think they're poisonous, they disrupt the mind, and they emit EMF that gives you cancer, so I have a very good ***king reason don't I?
@@bradadult5290 they bought it in 2006. my question is why are you using it right now?
They don’t do anything after work LOL they sit in Bay Area traffic
You're not wrong lol!
OMG that's my life lol
@@ThunderAppeal Wow. You have troubles with your r and l’s. 👀
Correct!
@@imgonbastar114 Why you lacist?
What do they do after work? *The same thing the rest of us do. Eat, rest, meet friends, do more work, do something fun*
Yeah ask that to Elon Musk or Bill Gates, there side hobbies include going into outer space or cheating on their wives.
@@Turnpost2552 Sounds good.
6:35 People working at FB are afraid to expose their personal lives on the internet...wow-the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Yasss!
They don't want to be famous. They know how toxic people can be.
No facebook for me, it's pointless. Keep your privacy to yourself, no need to look for likes and "love" online. So many dangers and hackers nowadays.
This was the comment I was looking for after j saw that bit😂😂
there’s a UA-camr that goes by TechLead and he used to work for Facebook until they fired him for being honest about some things on UA-cam. I think that’s what most of those people are afraid of.
"I'm 32 or 33" lmao
Probably meant his korean age. In korea they count your years differently
In Korean I am 30 but in here, Canada, I am 28
I am 2 years old on planet Jupiter. How old am I? Anyone?
it's a gray area. I'm also not sure at times how old I am if I get asked on the spot because after 25, or 30 ppl stop celebrating birthdays.
Holy shit. I just found out I'm a year older in SK.
People in Silicon Valley: "After work? What's that?"
@タメル well *YOU'RE* *GAY*
Sleep.
Oh wait. They dont.
LOL - it's kinda true. I've been in Silicon Valley for 33 years now - after work, you either work out, do a quick hike, play tennis, basketball, go out to eat ... it's no different than any other place. I mean, who has time after work but to relax and kick back? Now, weekends are a different story - we go to San Francisco or Santa Cruz or Carmel ... ride our bike across Golden Gate bridge, hang out at Stanford, Alviso ... go boating, swim ... there are tons of stuff to do. What makes this possible is near perfect weather almost every day of the year - that's the key. In short, people that can afford to live here - stay. Those that can't, complain about traffic, cost, congestion ... and move. That's the bottom line. Oh, another thing - if you know what you're doing, you can become a multi millionaire extremely quickly. For instance, I can safely say that every single homeowner here in silicon valley that purchased their house more than 5 years ago - are probably a millionaire.
And what it I don't care about Money And Don't really have any passion in possessions.
@@trinayangogoi590 - Every individual is different - so I can only speak for myself. But in my opinion - life is lot sweeter when money is no longer an issue ... I wake up every morning knowing that I can quit whenever I want, work if I want, relax if I want ... knowing that I never have to worry about money again. It also helps if you enjoy your work - I love programming - I'd do it for free. So if you love what you're doing - money is secondary. If you get rich - that's just icing. But at the end of the day, being happy is all that matters. But I can only speak for myself - and growing up poor - not knowing if my parents were going to have a roof over our head ... that computer science degree for me was a lifesaver. And when I paid off my house and had hit million dollars in my savings account - the stress that was lifted off my shoulder was indescribable. At minimum, I knew me and my family were never going to be homeless. Having said that - money does not guarantee happiness - however, LACK OF MONEY almost always guarantees *UNHAPPINESS*. So in my opinion, it is imperative you at least have enough to exist.
@@facebooksmith1269 I don't need a million To exist. Besides where I'm at, I make more than quarter a million a year,, from my retail shop and car wash/ repair shop. I do agree that money plays a vital role, but I can also assure that it can be made from anywhere, needn't it be from a place where it's only work 12 hrs a day.
After I did my masters in CS, I joined SVIS. I expected it to be a 9-5, ending at 5. Obviously I was wrong. After work hours, our manager assigned small groups of us some stupid shits and we have to submit it a day or two. Overtime is Soo common in their culture that most of us would stay at office till 8 or 9. That's 3-4 days a week. The people weren't honest and very secretive. All they care about is money and more money. Relationships feel soo dull and selfish. Was too much for me to handle.
@@trinayangogoi590 - you don't need million to exist - but I'm talking about if you have no other source of income. With couple million in the bank, you know that working is an option. Freedom is what you're striving for - if you can get that at $1.00 - that's good too. And what you say about SV is true - I've been programming for over 3 decades and I've been with many start ups - we practically live at the company. Food is brought in, in house Gym, any ethnic food you want - it's like a family. Sometime you hit it big, sometime you don't. What you're forgetting is that lot of these people (including myself) - would do this for free. This is what we *WANT* to do. Money is just bonus. On top of that, we have near perfect weather, diversity, any type of ethnic food we want, access to surfing, hiking, skiing ... I remember our company used to send us to London for lunch and fly back the next day.
Obviously, there are many ways you can make money. I made $100K today just by shorting the market (so far - still 10 minutes till closing) - tomorrow, I'll put some call options and I'll probably make another $100K or so - so money isn't the issue. Once you have couple million in the bank - it's easy to make money. It's getting the first million that's hard. And at that point, it's about creating and having fun - and SV gives you is an environment where you can have fun in near perfect temperature 365 days a year. For instance, right now, I'm coding while overlooking Santa Cruz board walk. It's just a different lifestyle. Not everyone is cut out for it - you obviously were not. Nothing wrong with that - you found success the another way. As long as you're having fun - that's all that matters.
so they are living like 0.3 of their life and 0.7 they waste to get money to be able to live that tiny 30%? I'm sorry if its not 20%work 80%do what I wanna do, I dont want this life thank you very much. I wont be extending my trial 18years
I've lived in the SV for all my life. This seems pretty spot on. Although the sample size here is biased towards tech employees & older mature folks with families, there's alot of suburbs, hiking trails, and traffic. I used to go to the climbing gym until traffic died down, go out to eat, head home, rinse and repeat. If you really want some night life, you can go to downtown SJ or what I did, drive to SF and drive back down (traffic on the way back is sometimes 3hrs).
This shows you can have one of the highest paying job in the world and still live a boring af life.
Trust me, for alot of these people they love coding so it wont be too bad, especially if you're young.
What can you do with 2-3 free hours of time? Working isn't fun after 8-9 hours of work.
At least you have money
what did you do then
most people that make decent money lead boring lives..
2:47 "After work as a Tech Lead I make youtube videos and deal with my wife leaving me"
you forgot to add "and a millionaire"
or how to participate in doxxing
Ex-google , Ex-Facebook, multi millionaire....
what the fuck is a tech LEAD?
@@mayilarun Ex-husband....
Your message at the end about FOMO was so great man !!! Great stuff!
I appreciate your boldness. Hopefully even after thinking this through you still continue to ask bold questions in this bold way. It’s sometimes bc ppl think too much that we never get to see these kind of videos :)
This helped cure my obsession with moving to SV.
@@trtrhr I like your comment
Same, man, same.
Lol😂
the same
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Thanks for putting this video together! I have been in in the Valley many times for work, and although as a visitor it is such a thrilling place, as someone living there... I can see people falling into a very limited monotony. Unless you are a huge fan of open-space activities (surfing, hiking, flying...) you are going to end up staying at home, because everything is so painfully far from everything else... Not to mention commuting!! 😫
I am based in London and, despite being far from perfect, I live in a flat with a giant garden, I can get the Tube and be in the office in 30 minutes. And when you finish work, you are in the centre at a walking distance of Soho, Fitzrovia, King's Cross... On the weekends you can either stay in London or visit some lovely places around (Brighton, Bath, Canterbury, Cambridge, Oxford...) and if you want to do something a bit more special you can get a train to Paris or Amsterdam or fly to anywhere else in Europe in 1-4 hours.
Regardless how much money you have, you still need the time and the opportunities at hand to make something minimally unordinary with your evenings and weekends.
As a SV tech worker, I can tell you a lot of us just go home and sleep after work. We're too exhausted to do anything, and the traffic is horrible! Some of us have to commute hours to work because housing is affordable outside of SV. The weekends are when we have fun, there's games to go, beaches, parks, hiking, etc. But even then some of us are working on weekends night or day.
dude is it even worth to have a life like that? why do you live, to work/sleep/commute/work?
But with the salary, isn't this gonna pay off when you can retire early?
@@velzing22 are they gonna survive till that point? What if you will die this week, you never know. There should be ballance in life for every day. They dont have that. I mean its a failure of human race, we are human resources in hands of giant corporations
@@velzing22 you aren't retiring early if you live in Silicon Valley. not unless you move somewhere else
No one has any idea what their actual age is 👏👏
They don't want to give it out, just the general age group
2:42 My guy said 32 or 33 lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "between 30 and 40" means 39
But why are they doing this? Why would they all do this?
@@maxxrenn because age discrimination at work. It's illegal but companies find a way around it easily.
0:21 "Welcome to the Rice Field motherfuckers" energy there
I lived in Bay Area for 7 years and I approve this video. Pretty boring that you barely can find someone to hang out daily.
What do you live now?
3:37 She says Micheladas ; Which is a Mexican drink made with beer, lime juice, assorted sauces, spices, tomato juice, and chile peppers
I laughed at the real footage part. Subbed! Also, in my experience, most techies spend their time the same way as shown in videos. Boba, watching videos, or working out.
Whats meaning "Boba"? :v
@@gerardoelias4946 its a drink
This sounds like a depressing life, nothing to look forward to other than the next day of work, count me out.
So apart from these people, What do other people do after work. Genuinely curious.
@@GagandeepSingh-np1zr I live in Vermont, in the summer season I do a lot of mountain biking, keeps me fit, get to see cool places and meet people outside work that share the same interests, in the winter I snowboard, and same thing there too with the people and places, so no matter what season it is I have at least one thing I love and 2 groups of people to hang out with
@@trevhaas96 That is cool man. I always wanted to do Skiing in snow, but here in India there is only one place where one can do so, ie Kashmir and it is gripped with terrorism. Otherwise I would have opted for 25 day course. India is pretty bad if you want to do recreational stuff as too much population/pollution with lots of issues and not much cool places. That is one reason I want to come to west. I am myself Software developer, I also want to go abroad but not want to end up like these people in video, just want to hang out at cool places, even with one tenth of their salary, at least will inhale good quality air. Ah Man..
It really depends on what you like to do. there are many places to hike, and it being in calfornia means there are a lot of cool national parks you could visit. I think it's just that people want to relax and spend time with their family after work or on the weekends.
@@mynamesthis7016 Exactly, some people prefer simple lives
I like that SV is family oriented and are actually very in touch with humanity
As cliché as it sounds, most of these ppl are victims recovering from extremely strict indian/asian parents 😅
Well yess 🙃 !!
white guy faang boi. Can say my bestfriends asian and indian parents grew on me.
im also trying to get job somewhere else in world, im from india, i wanna escape
of course, most of these employees spend a lot of time at their job , they are mostly tired and burned out after work.
If you pay attention in minute 3:35 the woman saying "Micheladas" because in Mexico City it is a drink with beer also some ingredients like lemon, salt, sweetie sauces, etc. Sounds weird but a lot of people love them.
I mean, these people there are highly passionate about their jobs and the difference they’re making, so it literally is entertaining to them
great courage brotha! Going up to people ain't easy. I could see how this was nerve-racking! But it was worth it. Great insight!
Wow, I work in tech in the SF Bay Area Peninsula for a decade now. I'm surprised to hear they don't have anything to do after work. Granted, I also live in SF where there are a lot more options compared to the South Bay. But still, there's NHL, NFL, and MLS when it comes to sports. There are also a few notable dance clubs and a casino there. There's a lot of good restaurants there too.
When it comes to live music, there's definitely not many options compared to SF, but there are concerts at the Levi's Stadium, SAP Center, and Shoreline when big artists come to town. But SF is really not that far away. I've met a lot of SV techies at shows I've attended in the City.
I do have to say, and someone already commented on this, Bay Area traffic sucks, especially around the Facebook, Google, and Apple campuses. Many live far from where they work; some even across the Bay. Once you spend an hour in traffic to get home, you really don't want to go out again. Some leave work late to let the traffic subside before they head home so it they really only have a few hours before they need to go to bed and get ready for the next day. So it's understandable it doesn't seem like to have much to do after work. It's more like they don't feel like doing anything aside from recouping after a long day.
I really like this video and appreciate your effort to take interviews with those many people. This is unique.
After going home, I bet many ppl end up just doing Leetcode
Shrunken_Dunken that’s true, no cap ☺️
why? they already work at fb and google
leetcode are only for freshers i guess
yes they don't want to reveal the secret. psss...pss..pss... anyways ur name and profile picture is amazing like completely dwelled into algorithm paradigms.
@@praveenawesome2182 nope, before any level entry,they have a "brush up your leetcode" phase
I've been a consultant at one of these companies for several years now.
For the most part during pre-Covid times, many of the bigger companies provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between on-site. So after work many FTEs (Full Time Employees) and TVCs (Temps, Vendors, Contractors) stay after the usual business hours to eat dinner, participate in hobby/cultural organization activities, or continue working. I enjoyed playing at the onsite arcade (DDR and zombie shooting games were my fave), and I would have joined a Quidditch team if it weren't for my bad knee. If you watch 'The Internship' from 2013, it's ALMOST the real thing at that company... but add doggos in the office and the constant complaining about commuting and traffic.
Speaking of traffic, for many of us who have families and/or just want to get home ASAP, depending on where one lives in the Bay Area, it may take upwards of 1-2 hours on the commute back home (sounds painful, I know). There are some people I know of that commute 3-4 hrs if they live out in the Central Valley (which is East of the Bay Area).
On Thursday or Friday nights, others choose to go out to nearby bars, pubs, restaurants to eat, drink, and socialize while waiting for traffic to die down.
I was born and raised in San Jose and I'm really not sure the expectation here. Its like any other suburb, and there's major sampling bias here (numerous parents who I don't think would do any different if they lived in say, Arizona).
I left to LA and moved back to the Bay area both living in SF and San Jose. Both are better than places I went to college in New England. There's stuff to do - bars, events, etc. But people are lazy and downplay going out to eat, hanging with friends, etc.
If your desire is to step out of your apartment and be surrounded by bars, street fairs, etc just hitting you in the face you need a city, and Silicon Valley isn't that.
3:36 She say micheladas (a drink made with beer, lime juice, piquant seasonings) Mexican drink ;)
Bottom line: they do the same old stuff everyone else does until we all die someday. How's that for being blunt.
Dude talking to random people about random stuff is actually one of keys to happiness, good for you.
3:36 - it's "go have micheladas" - a spicy beer-based cocktail they make in latin america
Mexico specifically.
What do people actually expect them to do after work? I mean I think the things they said pretty much applies anywhere else. What kind of ideal after work life are you guys thinking about?
This exactly, people seem to have unrealistic expectations or delusional self-standards from watching too much netflix. I'd say the lives of these SV people are pretty solid, peaceful and respectable
2:49 work out after work. Couldn't have said this any better. 😂
The irony of the FB employees not being comfortable exposing their private life 🤣
😂😂😂😂
this video is pretty exciting and informative ! it fed my curiosity i didnt know i have. thanks bro keep it up !
I was born and raised in Silicon Valley, but it was called Santa Clara Valley then. This video just adds to a long list of reasons why I am glad I moved out of there 25 years ago.
what part of the reason was the fact that there are so many foreigners there (mostly from china and india)?
@@mahavakyas002 Foreigners had nothing to do with me moving out. It was the over crowding, traffic, and high cost of living.
@@muskrat3291 same here. grew up in silicon valley but couldn't take it any more (as of recently). too crowded. too much traffic. the wild fires were getting too close for comfort. not to mention how CA turned from a beautiful state into a veritable dung-hole thanks to our politicians.
@@mahavakyas002 Yep, you're right. I have no regrets about leaving. Quality of life is much better.
I worked most of the BIG companies in Silicon Valley from 1995 thru 2005 and most people are family oriented and spend most of there time on campus working 8 to 12 hour shifts. Some work 4 days a week 12 hour days and some just work 9 to 5 , 7 days a week.
But most are exhausted after work mainly from commuting and it takes people a day of rest before they want to go out and do normal activities.
Most people shop online during breaks so they dont have to shop after work.
Many people work week end too and study on week ends and are on call so they have no free time.
What was most exhausting was commuting to and from work. About 1 hour in traffic each way.
But at off commute hours it only takes 15 minutes to get to work.
But it is tough if you have kids. Because you have to work with a sitter , childcare and school and homework and feeding the kids.
And all the problems that can come with raising children. It is tough.
Also you have to be a Millionaire today to own a house in Silicon Valley.
Thank you for summing up the trends at the end! Was very helpful to see what life would be like by age range, etc.
This is so true. I have lived here in Sillicon Valley for over 10 years and those answers were totally on point
"What do I do in my spare time? Fucking nothing! I come home, plug into electricity slot and stare at the wall all night waiting for my batteries to recharge" (c) Silicone Valley resident, 2065.
Developers In China: work 9:00am - 9:00pm. take subway to home for 1 hour , have a rest and take a shower for 2hour, go to bed at 12:00am , wake up at 7:30am, prepare for work and eat breakfast for 30min, spend 1 hour on subway to office. start a new cycle.😂
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Those who said no are secretly working on their own startups
I'll help save you guys 9 minutes: They do nothing after work, cuz work never stops in Silicon Valley. They try very hard to come up with something LOL. But hey at least they making hella BANK. Oh wait rent and basic living costs just called... :(
Actually U r right though.. I once worked as an intern there and I can tell it's only work and work. Definitely not a place to settle in.
Thank you also for saying the things about FOMO (never heard this expression before, but it describes perfectly my little existence crisis that I get sometimes) and your words helped!
Love the contents!! Thanks for doing this for us(subscribers) :P I also appreciate all of your time and effort to deliver high quality contents for us
"if you have FOMO loose it. I don't think it's worth time thinking about others." - couldn't have said it better myself. Subscribed.
The badminton guy looked like he hadn't slept for more than 2 hours in a couple days
3:34 she said “micheladas”. It’s basically beer mixed with tomato juice, lime, chili powder (mostly on the rim), and other things depending on your taste. I hate ones with tomato juice in it though haha.
Personally I've been in the Bay Area for about 3 years now -- it's basically commute --> work --> commute --> gym --> home --> sleep --> repeat haha. But since a ton of people are WFH now (like me), I have time to make UA-cam videos/watch Netflix/etc.
I used to be up at 6:00 every morning to take the bus over an hour each way to Sunnyvale, but I haven't been up before 8 now in weeks. I don't think most people will go back to commuting that far every day unless there's no other options. It's been nice working from home.
“Especially being exposed to public” ... Says a lot about Facebook 🤣🤣
Lets not forget that you pay a ridiculous amount for cost of living. Even people with 6 figure salaries are living in single bedroom apartments. San Jose and San Francisco also has an atmosphere of cocky elitist bootlickers, and those who don’t fit that profile are just barely getting by or aren’t from the area. Many locals are not friendly at all. The housing prices are driven up because wealthy buyers from China are sandbagging everyone by dropping cash, upfront payments to most of the homes that are worth buying, but only renting them out to locals. I lived in several cities around the US throughout my life, including Chicago. The bay area is by far the worst.
Shoutout to this guy for having the courage to go and walk up to hundreds of strangers, this is no easy feat!
Notice how people who had hobbies and goals outside of their seemed the most happy 😗😗😗😗😗😗
I actually recognize some of these folks from my old commute on the light rails.
Who’s come to this video after watching Start-Up? 🤚🏻
Me
Seo Dal Mi should have banged Mr. Han. I'm really mad.
@@GerekJordan93 Lol your wording is hilarious, but I’ve never agreed more
should've been "what do Indians do in Silicon Valley after work?"
Well it's the same as being in India..spend time with family
many chinese and indian
Yah 😂
After going home they do mock interviews on Pramp 😄
I honestly love how diverse silicon valley is!
where do you see diversity there? Its mainly asians
@@MrVaginalpilz that's diverse...i think idk im just a guy from the most diverse city in the world yeah im really dumb
MORE LIKE ASIAN VALLEY
3:08 she is gorgeous
all the people talking about their kids are beautiful. work for your kids, but also spend time with them to make them appreciate the work that goes into their lives
Love your content! Except for the part when you called people out for saying NO to the interview. I mean, no one has no obligation to agree to the interview or whatsoever, so you should get this straight before your next interview in the future. Cheers and keep up the good work!
So ur video captures the big company culture in SV really well. But if u want to the real SV, go to SF and the startup scene starting from Menlo Park, Palo Alto, San Mateo all the way to SF downtown. If u want to have fun and enjoy the work culture with your co workers and party after work join a startup. If u want to settle down, focus on career goals, side hustles, family, Work life balance go for bigger companies - but work, family and commute is the only thing u will be doing. But Sf bay area has a lot of things to do - day trips to Napa, various spots in sf, big sur, monterey - weekends. Weekdays - lots of great food places all over the bay area, bars, gyms. For younger folks who want to party - mountain view, Palo alto, Oakland (u gotta be careful but can be fun). Also there are tons of meet-up groups for hobbies. Big companies can also be fun, but u gotta go to company events to find like minded people. All the stuff I mentioned is pre pandemic, post pandemic everything seems dead given the stay at home orders.
This video encapsulates the failures, the do-nothingers. They sit around and watch Netflix, regardless of their setting, the do-nothingers will continue to do nothing. I am in Silicon Valley, but my setting does not define me. I am still able to build/launch/grow without living in the Valley, granted, I might not have access to as much capital since top VCs are here, but I will still fight, tooth and nail, to succeed.
The intro was so strong and funny that I felt like my right to decide whether to laught or not was taken. I just cracked
CS: Yo want to try to find some BUGs for fun?
IT: Yo want to hack each other?
These sound like typical answers. I was wondering what you were expecting. If you were interviewing someone who lived near Disneyland, would you expect them to say I go to Disneyland after work each day? Of course not. I work in I.T. myself and live and work in another valley (the San Fernando Valley). After work I might grab a bite to eat, or just go home. When I get home, I don't immediately go stare into a computer again. I do enough of that at work. :/
Awesome….I was feeling FoMo about not living in the SV until I saw this….Thank You
nobody:
this guy: badminton ! 🙂
Great video! I was considering moving to either Silicon Valley or NYC and your video sold me on NYC, thanks! :D
It was interesting to know what others do after work.. And, yes the conclusion was awesome! Keep it up!
3:30 the lady said "micheladas", which is beer with chili pepper, soy sauce, vegetable broth... It's so yummy tho.
To summarize: People in Silicon Valley still work after work. Corporate slavery at its finest.
That is your sole opinion. That does not make it the truth. Many will resist being posted elsewhere
This video was AWESOME. I've always been totally curious what people are up to after work and I live in San Francisco where it always seems like so much is going on! I think i'm gonna try to film the same idea over here, thanks for the inspiration! You have a new subscriber!
Dude, Supermatt, I'm from Silicon Valley and I did not appreciate what you did to portray this region in a way that makes it appear as we're in a desert in the middle of nowhere. Besides the natural beauty of countless trails, parks, lakes, universities (Stanford, Santa Clara, SJSU, etc) there are numerous museums, amazing restaurants, breweries, galleries, etc. You also failed to mention that we are less than an hour away from the coast with numerous coastal towns and beaches. Additionally, we are also less than 45 miles away from one of the most popular cities in the world San Francisco, and less than 90 miles away from world-renown Napa Valley and some of the best wineries in the world. Besides not getting prior approval from the companies whose campuses you visited, you come across as someone who doesn't know what they are talking about or doing. Try again, better luck next time.
Wow, this video is really interesting. Getting to know what these programming masterminds are doing after work is fascinating. Also funny is the fact, that the data collecting Google-company refuses to allow any other individual to collect data around them in any kind even if it just has nothing to do with the company itself. Thank you for your effort. Great Video!
of course. they know the shit they do behind the scenes and don't like other poeple ddoing it to them.
Anyone you interviewed with can speak English very well. Awesome.
lol are you deaf?
@@cshackerthingy8111 for a non native it's impressive tbh
Haven't watched this video, but I can assure you that people in silicon valley only go home and cry about how expensive it is to live there
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Thanks for the video! The ending part about FOMO is really good!
except the ppl saying no r not gonna brag about the jokers and blow to a stranger asian kid recording on video
It's like coming from a boring life, school and those stuff and getting into a boring life. Where are my fellow students :(
This guy’s answer: “making UA-cam videos.”
It is kind of drepressing how everybody is just living for the next day of work. Being a valuable asset for the company you work, when they would not blink to fire you if you mess up.
wait yahoo still exist?
This video from my recommendations is better than any motivation course
1:20 she should say my name is Helen and I'm beautiful
simp
For those out there who wondered at 3:35 Micheladas (Chilalas in vid subtitles) is a drink that contains light beer, Clamato (tomato juice), lemon, salt and a variety of spices. Classic tasty Mexican drink.
Mostly computer nerds are there in Silicon Valley.
That's all I know.
They possibly brainstorm on their side hustle ideas for their future startups.
They stay two hours in traffic trying to get home
It's true I see these people on the roads and there's nothing envious about their facial expressions, the hiking trails around here are truly breath-taking, so many different trails from san jose to the north and east bay it feels like your not in the bay area. Nature is always near no matter what city your in but it takes effort to explore
3:47 Read books. Okkkk. Thanks for the subtitles.
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