And they’re not just axing jobs — they’re also doing away with some of the perks that have become synonymous with working in tech.We’re going to keep them here by paying them a lot, but also through these outrageous perks: Not just free food but multiple cafeterias at every one of our offices where you can gorge yourself all day.Really elaborate gyms and shuttle buses to take you from your house down to our campus.” And what you started to see last spring was companies like Facebook and Google saying, “We’re going to tap the brakes on this stuff, too.” Facebook last spring said, “You can still have free food if you stay here and work late into the evening, but we’re not going to give it to you quite so early.” So you really do have to sort of stick around at work.And as petty a thing as, “We’re going to give you smaller to-go boxes so you can’t take the steak we’re giving you and go feed your family with it.” They’re saying, “We don’t want you to think of Facebook that way anymore.” It’s going to be closer to what normal working conditions for lots of people around the US, at least, are used to.Noel King Peter, you argue that the fundamental problem underlying a lot of these cuts is one that we love talking about on Today, Explained: the problem is growth — or lack thereof."