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People attend interviews for jobs. I tend to exit interviews with friends. (Which really makes me question my career choice as a technologist. Perhaps being a match maker may have been offered better prospects). That being said I think one of the key criteria has been to visit the toilet of the organizations to gauge the culture.
Toilets are generally a very private place. I have heard that female toilets are the drops for exchange of intelligence regarding other colleagues but in general it is the point of contact for excrement and release of unwanted bodily exhaust. From the design of the space and ensuring dignity via partitions for urinals to the choice/ presence of hand soap, hand towels, it does help to determine the company and their mindset towards employees.
Granted some companies have moved out to co-working spaces or spaces with building management, but the cleaners (being humans) tend to gravitate towards nicer office clients and spend the extra effort to keep the space clean beyond the desired standard operating procedures.
The industrial conglomerate
For the first, this is a conglomerate. I worked for their plastics arm in a extruder factory. The general notion would be factories would be disgusting and gross. Interestingly, this was the cleanest. Especially the factory floor toilet. The office was decent but nothing fantastic. I recall speaking to the plant manager about this, what left me very impressed was the fact that they paid a…
