What do people do in Silicon Valley after work?

[gunchoi]

This video is getting some views! Let me know in the comment below what you want to see in the channel! Right now, most videos are done in Korean but if you have good suggestions, I am open to anything!

[Beebo]

Main lesson I took from this video: If you wanna do something crazy, do it young and do it before you have kids! Job and kids will eat up all of your time!

[sanmyinttun]

It is more like Indian and China University campus with a few white tourists.

[teo]

I find it a bit funny that the people at Facebook were uncomfortable sharing what they do after work....

[AbrasivMusic]

This helped cure my obsession with moving to SV.

[joymae]

They don’t do anything after work LOL they sit in Bay Area traffic

[alok]

"I am at Google, people will probably think I am a weirdo..asking random people random questions" Lmao Bro that's what they have built their whole company upon :'D

[its.bonart]

People in Silicon Valley: "After work? What's that?"

[machine_learning_engineering]

I've lived in the SV for all my life. This seems pretty spot on. Although the sample size here is biased towards tech employees & older mature folks with families, there's alot of suburbs, hiking trails, and traffic. I used to go to the climbing gym until traffic died down, go out to eat, head home, rinse and repeat. If you really want some night life, you can go to downtown SJ or what I did, drive to SF and drive back down (traffic on the way back is sometimes 3hrs).

[ThomisticWomanhood]

6:35 People working at FB are afraid to expose their personal lives on the internet...wow-the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

[grizzsimbol]

As a SV tech worker, I can tell you a lot of us just go home and sleep after work. We're too exhausted to do anything, and the traffic is horrible! Some of us have to commute hours to work because housing is affordable outside of SV. The weekends are when we have fun, there's games to go, beaches, parks, hiking, etc. But even then some of us are working on weekends night or day.

[facebooksmith]

LOL - it's kinda true. I've been in Silicon Valley for 33 years now - after work, you either work out, do a quick hike, play tennis, basketball, go out to eat ... it's no different than any other place. I mean, who has time after work but to relax and kick back? Now, weekends are a different story - we go to San Francisco or Santa Cruz or Carmel ... ride our bike across Golden Gate bridge, hang out at Stanford, Alviso ... go boating, swim ... there are tons of stuff to do. What makes this possible is near perfect weather almost every day of the year - that's the key. In short, people that can afford to live here - stay. Those that can't, complain about traffic, cost, congestion ... and move. That's the bottom line. Oh, another thing - if you know what you're doing, you can become a multi millionaire extremely quickly. For instance, I can safely say that every single homeowner here in silicon valley that purchased their house more than 5 years ago - are probably a millionaire.

[jalajagrawal]

This shows you can have one of the highest paying job in the world and still live a boring af life.

[LuisCabanzonGutierrez]

Thanks for putting this video together! I have been in in the Valley many times for work, and although as a visitor it is such a thrilling place, as someone living there... I can see people falling into a very limited monotony. Unless you are a huge fan of open-space activities (surfing, hiking, flying...) you are going to end up staying at home, because everything is so painfully far from everything else... Not to mention commuting!! 😫

I am based in London and, despite being far from perfect, I live in a flat with a giant garden, I can get the Tube and be in the office in 30 minutes. And when you finish work, you are in the centre at a walking distance of Soho, Fitzrovia, King's Cross... On the weekends you can either stay in London or visit some lovely places around (Brighton, Bath, Canterbury, Cambridge, Oxford...) and if you want to do something a bit more special you can get a train to Paris or Amsterdam or fly to anywhere else in Europe in 1-4 hours.

Regardless how much money you have, you still need the time and the opportunities at hand to make something minimally unordinary with your evenings and weekends.

[AcidGlow]

What do they do after work? *The same thing the rest of us do. Eat, rest, meet friends, do more work, do something fun*

[qzddzdwx]

Your message at the end about FOMO was so great man !!! Great stuff!

[yeps]

I appreciate your boldness. Hopefully even after thinking this through you still continue to ask bold questions in this bold way. It’s sometimes bc ppl think too much that we never get to see these kind of videos :)

[BSingh-onqr]

I mean, these people there are highly passionate about their jobs and the difference they’re making, so it literally is entertaining to them

[mboxir]

I lived in Bay Area for 7 years and I approve this video. Pretty boring that you barely can find someone to hang out daily.

[mizztec]

I've been a consultant at one of these companies for several years now.
For the most part during pre-Covid times, many of the bigger companies provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between on-site. So after work many FTEs (Full Time Employees) and TVCs (Temps, Vendors, Contractors) stay after the usual business hours to eat dinner, participate in hobby/cultural organization activities, or continue working. I enjoyed playing at the onsite arcade (DDR and zombie shooting games were my fave), and I would have joined a Quidditch team if it weren't for my bad knee. If you watch 'The Internship' from 2013, it's ALMOST the real thing at that company... but add doggos in the office and the constant complaining about commuting and traffic.
Speaking of traffic, for many of us who have families and/or just want to get home ASAP, depending on where one lives in the Bay Area, it may take upwards of 1-2 hours on the commute back home (sounds painful, I know). There are some people I know of that commute 3-4 hrs if they live out in the Central Valley (which is East of the Bay Area).
On Thursday or Friday nights, others choose to go out to nearby bars, pubs, restaurants to eat, drink, and socialize while waiting for traffic to die down.