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Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work by lettersdigits on Sunday August 06, 2017 @05:01PM (#14943510)
> "Most of my friends at Google work four hours a day. They are senior engineers and don't work hard. They know the Google system, know when to kick into gear. They are engineers, so they optimized the performance cycles of their own jobs," one engineer described.

Is this really prevalent at Google?

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Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work by muzz on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:14PM (#14943963)
My experience is that it isn't, because of the performance review process. If someone could "optimize" their evaluation-- including peer evaluation, evaluation from other teams, stack ranking, etc-- then I guess they could work less. But I really don't see how they could do this.
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