A job at Google can also come with a place to live at Google.
In the parking lot.
For almost a decade, a "small band of Google" workers have avoided Silicon Valley rents by living close to work -- as in, at work. As in, in their cars or in campers in the company parking lots, according to reports.
The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that some Google workers have lived in cars or in campers for up to 60 weeks while putting in long hours at their Google desks.
In one case, former Googler Matthew Weaver was "dared' to live on campus for a year. According to the BBC, the Mountain View campus has everything one would need in order to live: laundry, three free meals a day, and space to work on bicycles.
Some Google employers told the BBC outright that they did this in order to live in Silicon Valley at all -- as in, their Google salaries were insufficient.
Meanwhile, some Peninsula cities like Palo Alto have outlawed living in cars. So maybe Weaver and his parking lot compatriots took advantage of a good thing while they could.
