I work really near the current Reddit office. The SOMA location means:
1) Lots of good but expensive ($10-30/day, easily) lunch options. Reddit provides lunch, and most of the employees seem to eat there, so no much of a perk.
2) Shitty walk to BART -- it's 20min to BART and then the BART wait, BART trip, and whatever on the other end. BART is nice if you're within a couple minutes of a station, which basically means DT oakland, berkeley, or FiDi/market st for offices. Or Daly City!
3) Caltrain, but Caltrain confuses me; I'd always rather drive. You can do Caltrain to Millbrae and then BART, though, for Daly City.
4) 280 proximity (but, Daly City does it better).
5) Bay Bridge sort of proximity (but, 30-45 minutes to wait to get on it in the evenings 5-7pm). This is objectively a big win for Reddit's current location vs. Daly City -- people in Oakland/Berkeley who drive to work. (I do this, and aside from costing me $1k/mo pretax all-in in a paid off car, it gives me a 15min each way commute at 10a and 7p 95% of the time).
6) Utterly extortionate housing rents -- $3500++ for a studio, $4500 1BR. If you were lucky and got here years ago, it can be half that, which is still expensive in absolute terms, but based on Bay Area tech salaries sort of reasonable. Otherwise, insane. Daly City is 50-75% of that, or less, and Pacifica/other San Mateo County/Western SF areas are options. It's faster to go from Ocean Beach to Daly City by car than Ocean Beach to SoMA via Muni.
7) Obnoxiousness whenever AT&T park has an event. Parking goes from $12/day to $90/day, and crowds of roving drunken assholes take to the streets. Usually in the evenings, but baseball has day games :(
1) Lots of good but expensive ($10-30/day, easily) lunch options. Reddit provides lunch, and most of the employees seem to eat there, so no much of a perk.
2) Shitty walk to BART -- it's 20min to BART and then the BART wait, BART trip, and whatever on the other end. BART is nice if you're within a couple minutes of a station, which basically means DT oakland, berkeley, or FiDi/market st for offices. Or Daly City!
3) Caltrain, but Caltrain confuses me; I'd always rather drive. You can do Caltrain to Millbrae and then BART, though, for Daly City.
4) 280 proximity (but, Daly City does it better).
5) Bay Bridge sort of proximity (but, 30-45 minutes to wait to get on it in the evenings 5-7pm). This is objectively a big win for Reddit's current location vs. Daly City -- people in Oakland/Berkeley who drive to work. (I do this, and aside from costing me $1k/mo pretax all-in in a paid off car, it gives me a 15min each way commute at 10a and 7p 95% of the time).
6) Utterly extortionate housing rents -- $3500++ for a studio, $4500 1BR. If you were lucky and got here years ago, it can be half that, which is still expensive in absolute terms, but based on Bay Area tech salaries sort of reasonable. Otherwise, insane. Daly City is 50-75% of that, or less, and Pacifica/other San Mateo County/Western SF areas are options. It's faster to go from Ocean Beach to Daly City by car than Ocean Beach to SoMA via Muni.
7) Obnoxiousness whenever AT&T park has an event. Parking goes from $12/day to $90/day, and crowds of roving drunken assholes take to the streets. Usually in the evenings, but baseball has day games :(