Inside look at Facebook's new headquarters, 'the bunker'

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Facebook recently moved into new headquarters at a building formerly owned by HP in California, USA.

The team over at TechCrunch were lucky enough to get a glimpse of the new working environment. The new headquarters is located at Palo Alto, California. The company used to base its HQ across a collection of buildings which housed 1,000 employees. As Facebook has grown, the need for a campus has increased and all employees have now moved to the new base named "the bunker" by Facebook workers.

The HQ is 150,000 square feet and is a building that used to be owned by HP and used as a lab. The layout is much more open for employees, allowing them to see who they work with easily. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, was recently interviewed by Robert Scoble where he described Facebook's "bunker" as "a lot of energy...really cool". According to Zuckerberg it's the first time Facebook have had the whole company together in one place for two and a half years.

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(1 reply) #1 s3n4te on 16 Jun 2009 - 06:50

cool

#1.1 Sam Symons on 16 Jun 2009 - 07:30

s3n4te said,

Word.

#2 s0nic69 on 16 Jun 2009 - 07:33

i had problems with the audio, couldnt always hear the questions. too bad it didnt have captions.

(5 replies) #3 kupang on 16 Jun 2009 - 07:39

pardon for my ignorance, i'm not seeing any computer casings nearby..

#3.1 jase chaos on 16 Jun 2009 - 08:01

kupang said,

Weird... neither do I.

#3.2 Tom W on 16 Jun 2009 - 08:10

That's because they are all using laptops connected to the screens....

#3.3 Binary on 16 Jun 2009 - 10:36

Tom W said,

Quite a few of them are Macbooks.

#3.4 ascendant123 on 16 Jun 2009 - 11:30

Binary said,

I noticed that too, random.

EDIT: Also is that some MacVIM/emacs I see? Props; a lot of newer devs are too scared for it.

#3.5 antareus on 16 Jun 2009 - 19:26

ascendant123 said,

Damn kids and their "intuitive" UIs. In my day we had to program without 1's!

(FYI: I use vim daily, so don't attempt an ad hominem.)

#4 pupdawg21 on 16 Jun 2009 - 08:12

WHat's with the Subject to search posting up there?
I use to have one of those chairs at my old work place it was a comfortable chair hehe.
Anyway, Facebook has been growing really fast and making nice improvements to the website and they are increasingly getting more traffic even though I am not an avid user of the site. I read an article recently showing that they recently surpassed YouTube in traffic making it one of the 3rd top web property in relationship to web traffic behind only Google and Yahoo.

#5 Edgar J on 16 Jun 2009 - 08:21

Bye bye MySpace?

#6 Y2Stu on 16 Jun 2009 - 08:42

they use some big ass monitors lol

#7 acedriver on 16 Jun 2009 - 09:11

nice chair

(3 replies) #8 n_K on 16 Jun 2009 - 09:20

'The Bunker' once again a name thieved from FP by FB, just as they did with the Face part of there name, hope they get sued again.

#8.1 advancedboy on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:38

Who's FP?

#8.2 n_K on 16 Jun 2009 - 16:02

FP = Faceparty

#8.3 mulligan2k on 16 Jun 2009 - 20:31

i always though facebook stole the 'face' part of their name from the a team's face?

#9 minkcar on 16 Jun 2009 - 09:32

lol splith (n_K)

i agree

(1 reply) #10 +what on 16 Jun 2009 - 10:42

All that to manage a social networking website...

#10.1 Majesticmerc on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:02

Go look at the job listings on facebook, it's a big business. They've got MASSES of data to process, as well as a need to store a heck of a lot of data.

#11 ascendant123 on 16 Jun 2009 - 11:30

Maybe I have just spent too much time on my current contract... but that looks like a really clean cabling job for such a unique situation -- props to whoever did the install.

(1 reply) #12 neufuse on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:24

what dell monitors are those?

#12.1 ascendant123 on 16 Jun 2009 - 14:11

neufuse said,

http://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/business/mon...s=bsd&cs=aubsd1

I would say... they have 27" ones but they look nothing like it.

(2 replies) #13 brink668 on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:30

not sure why anyone would want to work there. No privacy at all. that kinda of blows

#13.1 Nashy on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:42

brink668 said,

Somehow I don't think the boss will worry if they're sitting on Facebook all day.

#13.2 Calum on 16 Jun 2009 - 16:56

Nashy said,

Haha! That was brilliant!

(1 reply) #14 fergiej on 16 Jun 2009 - 12:50

That's cool and all, but someone tell them to FIX THE STUPID iPHONE app already! iPhone 3.0 has effectively broken the stupid thing. Can't see posts or comments at all anymore. It's needed a overhaul since the "new" facebook went live a couple of months ago.

#14.1 MadDog on 16 Jun 2009 - 17:36

Perhaps they will release an update when, I don't know, 3.0 is officially released?

(2 replies) #15 Edrick Smith on 16 Jun 2009 - 13:30

Anyone notice the sign saying the work area is subject to search or something?

#15.1 s0nic69 on 16 Jun 2009 - 17:31

yea, i saw it. i thought it was a bit weird..

#15.2 MadDog on 16 Jun 2009 - 17:37

I'm sure it's just there for fun. I have a "Danger: Explosives" sign near our server staging area.

#16 +kraized on 16 Jun 2009 - 13:49

Whats with the really crappy camera work. Jeez.

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