I didn’t expect this to be a book about HR (people ops), but I still found it to be enlightening. Working at Facebook, it’s interesting to see how much of our DNA seems to have been copied directly from Google, and I think we are better for it. Whenever I bring guests from the outside in, they marvel at the completely different paradigm of silicon valley companies, and this book does a great job explaining to the outside world why we work the way we do.
This book was also enlightening on the less flashy aspects of building a company: annual (or semi-annual or quarterly) reviews, calibrations, underperformers, food. These are all things that silicon valley employees takes for granted, but it’s definitely fun to look into the pipes and see how it was built.