[hartator]

This is the Amsterdam startup scene, basically an extension of the US startup scene where you can smoke weed. Try France, Spain or Italy that truly have a different culture for tech things, I am not sure if you will like it.

[1474295912]

Ignoring your snark, I had the similar experience at a Salzburg and Berlin based company. On the other hand there were many companies (Zalando, ProhectA etc) which were copying the shitty model of useless programming puzzles.

[plandis]

It's probably pretty easy to obtain pot in SF. Definitely easy in Seattle if you're over 21.