[VikingCoder]

"Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity." -Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2004

It's kind of nice to get a T-Shirt with a Team Logo on it when you join a team. Especially if you see other people on that team already have that T-Shirt.

It's kind of nice to celebrate a major accomplishment with a coffee cup that has some cool art on it.

It's kind of nice to see what interests other people have by noting the stickers on their laptops.

It's kind of nice to get a surprise nice new backpack when you wouldn't normally bother to take care of yourself by getting one.

It's kind of nice, as a manager, to send some token appreciation to your team when you see them working hard to solve a problem.

It's kind of nice.

Some people kind of like it. If you read the book "Love Languages," you'll see that different people feel appreciated through different ways. Some like token gifts. Some like words of appreciation. It's worth learning how someone else likes to feel appreciated, because it costs you very little to express your appreciation in a way that they particularly enjoy.

[htrp]

"Expect us to get bored of running google and go on to do dumb rich people things with the money you employees made us" -- Probably Page and Brin sometime in 2014