Murillo Fernandes Bernardes

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"And if, by chance, you are a boss interested in motivating your smart programmers, perhaps there’s a lesson here, too. High salaries are nice. So are bean bag chairs. So are dual monitors and offices with closable doors. These things are ephemeral, though. If you don’t have him working on the core functionality of your product, with tons of users, and an endless supply of difficult problems, all of the games of ping pong in the world won’t help.So next time you want to try to emulate Google’s environment, ask yourself what really is the environment? Is it really the techno-colored bean bag chairs?"