Stepping into Cursor's San Francisco office means stepping out of your shoes.

Ben Lang, a Cursor employee who joined the $9.9 billion AI coding startup earlier this year, posted two pictures to X on Tuesday showing racks filled with shoes, plus sneakers and slip-ons strewn across the floor. The destination was not someone's home, but rather the Cursor office in San Francisco, which has a no-shoes policy.

And while this might seem odd to the typical 9-to-5er, it's actually quite common in Silicon Valley.

"I've only worked at startups that have a no-shoes in office policy," Lang posted, adding that he had worked at Notion , an AI workspace startup, in addition to Cursor. "Curious which other companies do this."

Lang compiled what he called a "comprehensive" list of 26 startups wi

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