TL;DR "So Pivotal decided to employ both a stick and a carrot. The stick is a mandatory morning meeting at 9 a.m., where your absence will likely be noted. The carrot is the breakfast buffet, "sort of a prize to get in,""
I'm glad I read this. Now I'm sure to never apply for this company
I run the Pivotal office in Singapore. Breakfast is wonderful, but it's hardly mandatory.
Standup at 9:06 is important, though. In order for pairing to work, you need to have everybody there at the same time.
The iron bargain is that you work a rigid eight hour schedule, but then you go home (or wherever) and don't think about work. No overtime or crunch mode, ever.
It's not for everybody, but many folks really really really like it.
Everyone has different levels of self-control. Maybe in an ideal society the consultants with a great deal of it would work from home/for themselves while the consultants with less would get the breakfast buffet and the gong.
I keep reading that US companies complain that they dont get skilled people and I always think its because they are not ready to pay a good salary but looking at the list the salaries look good. So is there really a skills shortage?
The skills shortage in my experience is at the management level and above. The number of people that aren't remotely qualified to even be an "IT Guy" that are in management roles are astounding.
http://www.businessinsider.com/pivotal-906-am-breakfast-meet...