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Originally Posted by Londonee
My brother works at Google. It's not a "lunchroom cafeteria." It's a large, gourmet, multi-faceted, chef driven operation with dozens of options prepared each day. The ambiance is hip, industrial, sophistication. There's even a ramen bar. He can eat 3 different healthy meals there each day if he chose (though many techies are adopting my decades long strategy of intermittent fasting). This is not uncommon in big tech.
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And in investment banking. I worked at Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan, and barely cooked a meal in years. We had extensive in-house food options, dinners (from any restaurant) were generally covered, there was almost always breakfast, we had a well-stocked pantry for snacking, and there are so many in-house catered functions that there would always be food present.
I think we got $25 for dinner, but it was really unlimited, because we would pool our dinner orders and our managers would cover any overages. And this was 15-20 years ago. So we could order from fancy steakhouses every single night, seven days a week, in theory. Obviously, the point is the employer wants to keep you working.