Google engineers insist 20% time is not dead—it’s just 120% time (qz.com) 11 points by xadxad 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] bsg75 12y ago ↗ Its still dead then. You may have access to infrastructure to experiment on, but its on your time, not Google's.You wind up investing personal time on company projects, with all of the usual ownership issues, thus no different than any other tech gig.
[–] acqq 12y ago ↗ Then the Dilbert strip is completelly accurate:http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/ [–] mathattack 12y ago ↗ I was thinking of the same article. :-)In their defense, most of the people that I know at Google work very hard. It's not a culture of 40 hour workweeks.
[–] mathattack 12y ago ↗ I was thinking of the same article. :-)In their defense, most of the people that I know at Google work very hard. It's not a culture of 40 hour workweeks.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadYou wind up investing personal time on company projects, with all of the usual ownership issues, thus no different than any other tech gig.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/
In their defense, most of the people that I know at Google work very hard. It's not a culture of 40 hour workweeks.