Hot Israel Startup Wix Has A Gorgeous Headquarters Overlooking The Mediterranean Sea
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Jul 26, 2021, 12:45 IST
The Wix office greets you with a wall of windows that show off the sea.
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VP of Marketing, Omer Shai, is one of Wix's earliest employees. He's here with Ethan Chernofsky of Headline Media.
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The windows line the outer walls of the office...
...and the windows wrap about the building, giving every office a view of the Mediterranean Sea.
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The employee lounge is a roof-top terrace that looks like it comes straight out of a luxury hotel.
A couple of developers, Barak Igal and Tomer Lichtash, hang out near the large mural on the terrace.
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Here's a view of the Port Area beaches and offices. This area is being renovated from warehouses to office space.
If you tire of the ocean, turn around and all of Tel Aviv is on display. That's Shai enjoying the view.
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Inside, we find Shai Kfir, a developer team leader. Israeli startups all say they don't steal each other's employees. But they do raid the big companies. Kfir was hired from SAP Labs.
Wix supports lots of languages and hires people from all over the world. Marketing team members Areilla Berstein from Brazil, David Koskos from France, Paloma Catalan from Spain (in blue).
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A big sense of humor, and dolls of every sort, fill the office. A mannequin keeps the product marketing team company.
Roy Cohen, product marketing manager, poses for our picture.
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Developer team leader Boaz Zaionce, from the Netherlands, also strikes a pose for us.
Dolls decorate the community/social media office. Community manager Ilona Stemmer tries to ignore them.
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Employees built a tunnel out of empty moving boxes. Notice the joke taped to the boxes, in Hebrew and English, like all of the signs in Israel.
More office humor.
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There's always an office dog or two, too. This is Dobby Bear.
In Israel, the weekend is Friday and Saturday. On Thursday nights, employees share a drink from the booze stored here in the hallway.
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